Autocomplete git in mac OS not working?

Question

I am using git in mac. I am trying to have the autocomplete feature. I followed these steps (http://www.codethatmatters.com/2010/01/git-autocomplete-in-mac-os-x/) but I get this

Answer 1

Was getting .git-completion.bash: bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory in Mountain Lion.

Should be "source ~/.git-completion.bash" in ~/.bash_profile

Answer 2

I had tried to use curl -O but the url was wrong and I ended up copying the text which caused the error.

Using this command made it work perfectly:

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

Thanks a lot everyone for your help!

Answer 3

From your error report:

case "$COMP_WORDBREAK'" in
                     ^ the problem is in unpaired apostrophe 

Answer 4

save the file e.g. in gedit with Linux Line-Ending

Answer 5

The git-completion.bash distributed is a Windows file with "\n\r" as a newline. You need to remove the '\r'.

For vim users, just do ":set ff=unix".

Answer 6

Since nobody's answering, quick sanity check: What does bash --version say? OS X tends to ship slightly outdated bashes, so if your system is old, it might be a compatibility thing. I'd expect that Bash 3.x works fine, but with 2.x I'm not so sure.