Can't get git-extras completions to work after following the setup docs too

[praveenpuglia]

I followed the instructions mentioned in the git-extras plugin setup page to install git without completions.

Here's my .zshrc.

 # If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH.
# export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
export ZSH="/Users/praveenpuglia/.oh-my-zsh"
export PATH="$HOME/.yarn/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$HOME/Library/Python/2.7/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"

# Set name of the theme to load. Optionally, if you set this to "random"
# it'll load a random theme each time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
# See https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes
ZSH_THEME=""

# Set list of themes to load
# Setting this variable when ZSH_THEME=random
# cause zsh load theme from this variable instead of
# looking in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# An empty array have no effect
# ZSH_THEME_RANDOM_CANDIDATES=( "robbyrussell" "agnoster" )

# Uncomment the following line to use case-sensitive completion.
# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to use hyphen-insensitive completion. Case
# sensitive completion must be off. _ and - will be interchangeable.
# HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks.
# DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to change how often to auto-update (in days).
# export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=13

# Uncomment the following line to disable colors in ls.
# DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable auto-setting terminal title.
# DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction.
ENABLE_CORRECTION="true"

# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.
COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

# Uncomment the following line if you want to disable marking untracked files
# under VCS as dirty. This makes repository status check for large repositories
# much, much faster.
# DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY="true"

# Uncomment the following line if you want to change the command execution time
# stamp shown in the history command output.
# You can set one of the optional three formats:
# "mm/dd/yyyy"|"dd.mm.yyyy"|"yyyy-mm-dd"
# or set a custom format using the strftime function format specifications,
# see 'man strftime' for details.
# HIST_STAMPS="mm/dd/yyyy"

# Would you like to use another custom folder than $ZSH/custom?
# ZSH_CUSTOM=/path/to/new-custom-folder

# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
plugins=(
  git git-extras z zsh-syntax-highlighting command-not-found extract zsh-autosuggestions
)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
source /usr/local/opt/git-extras/share/git-extras/git-extras-completion.zsh
# User configuration

# export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:$MANPATH"

# You may need to manually set your language environment
# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# Preferred editor for local and remote sessions
# if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then
#   export EDITOR='vim'
# else
#   export EDITOR='mvim'
# fi

# Compilation flags
# export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"

# ssh
# export SSH_KEY_PATH="~/.ssh/rsa_id"

# Set personal aliases, overriding those provided by oh-my-zsh libs,
# plugins, and themes. Aliases can be placed here, though oh-my-zsh
# users are encouraged to define aliases within the ZSH_CUSTOM folder.
# For a full list of active aliases, run `alias`.
#
# Example aliases
# alias zshconfig="mate ~/.zshrc"
# alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh"
alias zshconfig="micro ~/.zshrc"
alias ls="exa"
alias la="exa -la"
#alias code=code-insiders
alias nuke="rm -rf node_modules"
alias nig="npm install --global"
alias nis="npm install --save"
alias nid="npm install --save-dev"
alias ni="npm install"
alias boom="find . -name "node_modules" -exec rm -rf '{}' +"

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

autoload -U promptinit; promptinit
prompt pure

One thing though. Even though I tried installing git without completions, it probably installed the autocompletions anyway.

~
❯ brew install git --without-completions
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/git-2.18.0.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring git-2.18.0.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
Bash completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d

zsh completions and functions have been installed to:
  /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions

Emacs Lisp files have been installed to:
  /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/git
==> Summary
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.18.0: 1,488 files, 295.6MB

Doing git delete-branch and hitting tab just cycles through the files.

[mcornella]

I think it's because you do

source /usr/local/opt/git-extras/share/git-extras/git-extras-completion.zsh

after sourcing OMZ. Try removing that.

[mcornella]

Either that or delete git-extras from your plugin list, I think you'll be good just sourcing the completion file above.

[praveenpuglia]

Tried both of them. No luck! :( How do I debug this problem or help you provide more info?

[mcornella]

Can you complete commands at all, specially git? If so, post the output of which _git.

[praveenpuglia]

I can do things like git checkout [TAB] and it shows me a list of all my branches as expected.

# result of which _git
❯ which _git
_git () {
	local _ret=1
	local cur cword prev
	cur=${words[CURRENT]}
	prev=${words[CURRENT-1]}
	let cword=CURRENT-1
	if (( $+functions[__${service}_zsh_main] ))
	then
		__${service}_zsh_main
	else
		emulate ksh -c __${service}_main
	fi
	let _ret && _default && _ret=0
	return _ret
}

[mcornella]

It seems you are using git's completion, so I think the issue is that your brew command didn't work as intended.

Try uninstall the brewed git and reinstalling it again; if that doesn't work there may be an issue with your version of brew because it should respect the --without-completions flag. Make sure you're running the latest version of brew.

[praveenpuglia]

Ok. So did a clean homebrew setup and it did install git without completions. Then I followed the instructions to add git-extras plugin. No no completion works. I just see a bunch of ..... after hitting TAB and nothing happens after that.

this is what the sourcing and plugins looks like in my zshrc

# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
plugins=(
  git git-extras z zsh-syntax-highlighting command-not-found extract zsh-autosuggestions
)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
source /usr/local/opt/git-extras/share/git-extras/git-extras-completion.zsh

[praveenpuglia]

Never mind. I was being stupid this time. I was trying to see git completions on a non git repo :D

Thanks. This has solved my problems. :)

[praveenpuglia]

@mcornella Hi!
back here again since now the --without-completions option doesn't work for brew anymore. They removed it. What should be done in order to get this working?

[mcornella]

I supose you can chmod 0 the completion files, maybe put that in an automated script?

You could also give priority to the zsh completion folder by putting it first in $fpath, but you'd have to know where that is...

If you do this

for d ($fpath); do [[ -f $d/_git ]] && echo $d; done

you'll know in which folders there are git completions and you can tell which is git's and which is zsh's by looking at the comments.

[praveenpuglia]

Hi!
I have run into this again and nothing mentioned above works.

Since brew has removed support for --without-completions flag, the info mentioned here for OSX becomes outdated.

Can you please suggest a way in which I can make git-extras work again?

for d ($fpath); do [[ -f $d/_git ]] && echo $d; done

Running this gives me the following.

/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/5.3/functions

All of which seems to be coming from zsh specific directories and not the installed git directory.

[mcornella]

I think the one installed by homebrew is /usr/local/share/.... Verify that the comments of that file (/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_git) are similar to the one from the git repository. If they match, you can run chmod 0 <file> like I said above to prevent it from being loaded.

[praveenpuglia]

Awesome! That worked 👍