Error returnned when attempting to autocomplete git commands while not in a git repository

[nanenj]

Typing: git checkout [TAB] while not inside of a git repository results in the following:

[nanenj]% git checkout fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
HEAD

When not in a git repositiory, it should fail to autocomplete and should not suggest HEAD. The failure to autocomplete is indication enough that it's not working and as is the error returned while hitting tab destroys the prompt and makes things difficult to read.

I don't think tab completion should be returning errors. It should either default to how zsh itself behaves or just not autocomplete at all. Even if this isn't an 'issue' that will get resolved. If someone could point me in the right direction of where to look so I could at least fix it to my tastes locally, that'd be awesome.

Currently I've explored large portions of the git.zsh functions in lib, and the git plugin, but, most if not all of the obvious calls in both of these places redirect stderr to /dev/null, indicating that the behavior I'm after is actually what's intended.

[nanenj]

After a small bit of searching all the other issues related to git, I found this comment. #2394 (comment) which advises to run

brew uninstall --force git && brew install git --without-completions

This appears to resolve the issue. I'm not certain if doing this means I'm missing out on a good deal of git completion functionality or not. I suppose if I don't know, I won't miss it :)

[mcornella]

Can you close?