Git Autocomplete

So, as it turns out, Git does have an auto-complete (or tab completion) feature.

Why this doesn’t come out of the box in the year 2026? I don’t know.

But, if you’ve been living in the hell of manually typing out feature branch names like I have, don’t be like me. Configure git auto-completion:

For bash on Linux

Download the bash completion script:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash

Add this to your ~/.bashrc file:

source ~/.git-completion.bash

Add the following to your ~/.zshrc file:

autoload -Uz compinit && compinit

Note: after making either of these changes you’ll want to reload your shell with either exec bash or exec zsh for them to take effect.