posh-git

That works in similar ways as posh-git ( https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git ) - the tooling for Powershell to be able to be able to do things with git. This has a fair bit of code that goes in and examines the .git directory when present. Additionally, the shell has been programed to be aware of the git sub commands. But is it aware of... say... svn sub commands? The same amount of effort would be need to be done to have bash aware of .svn and its sub commands. This is special tooling written for one suite of commands. It doesn't work for arbitrary commands or arbitrary data structures. Even well known ones. tar -zxvf <tar filename> {specific file} That doesn't do tab expansion for the specific files that are within the tar file. Nor does doing --f show the expansion options for --file --format --fflags Someone wrote special case

Ah if you want auto completion for native commands they need to be registered first. PSReadLine provides autocompletion support but it only works by default with things builtin to PowerShell itself. For `git` there is a fairly popular module called posh-git [1] that provides auto completion support for some of the well known commands. Git for Windows also calls it out [2]. You can also provide your own custom auto complete calls with Register-ArgumentCompleter [3]. Hope this helps! [1] https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git [2] https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Appendix-A%3A-Git-in-Other-En... [3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

Yes, but you are referring to standalone scripts, not functions defined within a Bash script. Compare for example the following helper code used for git command completion inside Bash and inside PowerShell. Bash: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi... PowerShell: https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/blob/master/src/GitPromp... I believe this is clean Bash code and clean PowerShell code, and a script with a certain complexity. The functions inside the Bash script are documented using comments, the ones inside the PowerShell script are documented using "structured comments" (similar to javadoc/xmldoc/...). The parameters of the functions inside the PowerShell script also contain metadata which is used to provide completion on the commandline and similar functionality as the command line flags you demonstrated. I just

I used PowerShell as my main shell for a few years (before WSL existed). My experience is that it's extremely tedious having to relearn every command 'the PowerShell way' if you already know your way around standard Unix commands (and I wasn't exactly a Unix guru either). When WSL dropped I switched and haven't looked back. The only PowerShell tool I did love was posh-git [0]. Thankfully, someone has ported it to bash/zsh as posh-git-sh [1]. [0] https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git [1] https://github.com/lyze/posh-git-sh

If you want more info in your prompt, I recommend https://github.com/lyze/posh-git-sh (bash) https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git (powershell) Besides displaying which branch you're on, it also shows changed, added,... files and other useful info

I had idea to add something similar as tab completion to posh-git module for Powershell. Sadly it was not merged (is posh-git dead?) https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/pull/641 I wonder if something similar can be done in bash? By default bash doesn't "cycle" through possible completion but just display the list. Still, I guess it would be usefull to display last used branches first.

I'm no powershell guru, but I'm using posh-git [1]. Is it possible to chain commands using that tool? https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git

https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git has had something similar for awhile - very useful!

>given that Windows gives terrible terminal and shell Though the command set is a little verbose I think powershell is pretty nice. If you get posh-git(https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git) and use powershell it makes the git experience on windows quite pleasurable.

I've been using posh-git[0] with powershell for some time now and it works pretty well after the initial setup (requires a git for windows download[1]). [0]:https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git [1]:http://git-scm.com/downloads

Powershell along with posh-git (https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git) works really great on Windows.

BTW, Windows PowerShell includes a bunch of unix aliases including ls, cat, cp, mv, rm, pwd, more, ps, man, mount, echo, diff. It is also very customizable, it became my standard windows shell when I discovered posh-git https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git

Agreed that PowerShell really does make command line work on Windows much more pleasant than the old DOS prompt. I just discovered a PowerShell module for working with Git (https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git). It shows status info right in your prompt line and does tab completion of git commands and branches.