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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
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David Rhodes Clymer <david@zettazebra.com> wrote:
> Unless I read it incorrectly, the completion script included with
> git-core does not make it easy for users to write completion scripts
> for custom git commands. I can extend git itself by creating a command
> "git-foo", and placing it in my path.

git config --global alias.foo /home/me/bin/my-git-foo

git foo will now complete correctly.  No need to modify the
completion code.

-- 
Shawn.