gitgit-completion

Need help loading a git-completion.bash file

I am new to git. Every time I try loading my git-completion.bash I got the following error message 

line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
-bash: git-completion.bash: line 1: `<!DOCTYPE html>'

Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

Solution

  • You accidentally saved the HTML representation of the file from GitHub (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash) instead of the file itself. You should save the raw file instead - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash .