How to enable git file tab completion with zsh compinit?

Question

I have a problem with the zsh tab completion: After running:

autoload -U compinit
compinit

Git tab completion for files does not work any more.

Answer 1

(I'm adding an answer here mostly to get it off the unanswered list.)

As you can see from the comments, it does work. I believe the whole zsh situation has recently improved significantly, too:

commit 06f44c3cc5ca5eca638f300a518c65aa98d26d6d

Date: Mon Sep 6 08:33:19 2010 -0400

completion: make compatible with zsh

Modify git-completion.bash so that it also works with zsh when using bashcompinit. ...

So, if you happen across this googling, and your completion isn't working, try upgrading your git-completion.bash (link points to the blob from git.git HEAD). Current git version is 1.7.3.2; it should make it into the next one.