Time is pre­cious. I installed these util­i­ties to save some of it:

• bash-com­ple­tion
• svn-com­ple­tion
• git-com­ple­tion

I install bash-com­ple­tion via Mac­Ports on my Macs.

sudo port install bash-completion

I then saved this svn-com­ple­tion script to local­ly, and did a sudo cp:

sudo cp bash_completion /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d/svn-completion.sh

Note: “bash_completion” is the file linked on “svn-com­ple­tion script”. I hope that avoids con­fu­sion.

Last but not least, I then installed the git-com­ple­tion script. I first checked the ver­sion of Git I have via Mac­Ports which hap­pens to be 1.6.0.5.1 I then saved and untarred the Git tar­ball of the ver­sion I have local­ly. Then did anoth­er sudo cp of the actu­al git-com­ple­tion script to the same direc­to­ry where my svn-completion.sh is locat­ed at:

sudo cp git-1.6.0.5/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.sh

After that, I added the fol­low­ing to to my .pro­file (or .bash_profile):

# for bash-completion
if [ -f /opt/local/etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . /opt/local/etc/bash_completion
fi
source /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d/svn-completion.sh
source /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.sh

Either restart your Ter­mi­nal, or re-exe­cute your .pro­file, and that would do it.

For more info on Git com­ple­tion, check out this arti­cle by Kamal Fariz (bit­flu­ent).

1. Got it by using git ver­sion. [↩]