My zsh does git completion, but I did not configure this myself. How can I figure out where these settings are coming from?
Answer
zsh comes with its own completion library which includes completions for Git commands. Once you enable zsh’s completion, these bundle completions will be available.
You usually enable and configure zsh completion by running compinstall
(i.e. autoload -U compinstall && compinstall
). It will modify your .zshrc
to include autoload -Uz compinit
and compinit
so that completion is initialized for each instance of zsh. compinit
automatically loads completions from zsh’s fpath
directories (see the “Autoloaded files” section of the zshcompsys
manpage).
For example, my system has two versions of zsh installed:
/bin/zsh
gets Git completions from/usr/share/zsh/4.3.9/functions/_git
and/opt/local/bin/zsh
gets Git completions from/opt/local/share/zsh/4.3.12/functions/_git
.
The directories of these _git
files are in the respective shell’s fpath
(which also includes site-functions
directory that is next to the version directory).
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