MacPorts Upgrade Changes Bash Completion

Posted by: Bruce Snyder on June 7, 2013

After upgrading Macports recently to version xxx, I started seeing the following error in the terminal when the .bash_profile is loaded:

__git_ps1: command not found

Upon investigation, I discovered that the bash completion for git has been split into more than one file. Previously, all that was needed in the .bash_profile was to source the single file for git like so:


if [ -f /opt/local/etc/bash_completion ]; then
  . /opt/local/etc/bash_completion
fi

Since the update to Macports, now I also need to source the second file like so:


if [ -f /opt/local/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh ]; then
  . /opt/local/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
fi

After closing/creating the terminal tab, the error is gone.

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