Ignore ORIG_HEAD in zsh git autocomplete

Question

I use oh-my-zsh and git autocompletion.

If I type git checkout org and hit TAB I get these results:

ORIG_HEAD
origin/HEAD
origin/mybranch

How can I make the autocompletion to ignore ORIG_HEAD?

I just added a bounty because I'm very much interested in an answer to this :) — marcgg, Jan 09 '13 at 10:48

score 30 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '13 at 19:52

30

Add this to your .zshrc:

zstyle ':completion:*:*' ignored-patterns '*ORIG_HEAD'

This will ignore all files ending with ORIG_HEAD when multiple files exist.

answered Jan 14 '13 at 19:52

puckipedia

8

If you want to scope this a little bit tighter then you can use `zstyle ':completion:*:*:git*:*' ignored-patterns '*ORIG_HEAD'` – Ash Berlin-Taylor Jun 20 '19 at 12:01

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 10 '13 at 09:41

1

You could edit /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix/_git and remove ORIG_HEAD in the following line (line 5091 for me):

for f in HEAD FETCH_HEAD ORIG_HEAD MERGE_HEAD; do
You could remove .git/ORIG_HEAD :)

answered Jan 10 '13 at 09:41

Stefan

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