completion not working with git alias

[bobthecow]

completion not working with git alias

[clavelm]

If that problem is only on Windows, it can be interesting to know.
Does anyone use git flow completion with alias and it's working ?
Thanks,

Mathieu

[alexslade]

I have an alias on Mac ('f' = 'git flow') and flow-completion doesn't work.

[tarmolov]

I have some problem, too (on mac). So I'm looking forward to solving this issue :)

[bobthecow]

@heeton @tarmolov If I understand correctly, you're using Bash aliases (e.g. alias f="git flow")?

If this is the case, your problem is a limitation with the default git completion.

alias r="git remote"

won't tab complete git-remote subcommands either. Since git-flow bash completion can only extend the existing git bash completion, there's not much we can do about that.

@clavelm Interesting. Any ideas how to solve it? :)

[clavelm]

My problem isn't with bash alias completion, but with git alias completion.
Completion is working with git commands on my system.
I have aliased b for branch and when I write : git b + completion is working.

But with my alias "fff = flow feature finish" , "git fff + " give me the same completion as "git flow + " instead of "git flow feature finish + "

I'm having problem with git stash completion on my system link, and it seems it's coming from the bash version.

I have no idea how to solve that problem.
I'm not really sure I'm not the only one to have this problem as nobody was answering.

Mathieu

[tarmolov]

I as @clavelm use git aliases for git-flow.

For instance

fo = flow feature checkout
fs = flow feature start
fs = flow feature finish

So git fo <tab> doesn't work for me. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to fix it :(

[bobthecow]

@clavelm It is a problem with git bash completion. It gets confused when the number of words on the line are different. For example:

publish = push -u origin

will try to autocomplete "origin" (the only possible completion for git push) instead of completing branch names, as if you had entered git push -u origin.

So as long as your aliases replace the same number of arguments, it'll keep working. In your case, it won't.

[tarmolov]

Do you know some workaround for creating short aliases?
git flow feature checkout - really really long way to achieve my feature.

[pixelastic]

@tarmolov You can try using bash/zsh alias instead of git one to workaround this issue. I myself am using aliases like gffs or gfff for git flow feature start and git flow feature finish in zsh and their autocompletion works perfectly.

[bobthecow]

I'm closing this issue as it's (unfortunately) not possible to resolve this from our end.