In bash in Mac OS X, you can use [TAB] to autocomplete file paths. By default this doesn’t work with git commands, I’ll have to manually configurate it. Here’s how:
Paste this command into the terminal, this will download the git-completion.bash script needed to execute the autocomplete:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash
Next, add this to the .bash_profile. This line will tell bash to execute the git autocomplete script if it exists.
if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
. ~/.git-completion.bash
fi
Restart bash and then autocomplete should work for git commands
If this doesn’t work right off the bat, permission is probably needed to run the script:
chmod -X ~/.git-completion.bash
When working in git I tend to come across or create long-winded git branch names so being able to autocomplete this will definietely improve my workflow.