Re: Where should git-prompt.sh be installed?

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Now the sysadmin should copy
contrib/completion/git-completion.sh to

        /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git

and contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh to

        /usr/share/git-core/contrib/?? (somewhere?)

Mortals source /etc/bash_completion in their ~/.bashrc (possibly
shared among multiple machines) and expect bash completion to work.
For __git_ps1, users should source that ?? path.

Questions:

 1) what path is appropriate for ?? above?
 2) is this documented anywhere?

Possible answers:

 1) Fedora uses /etc/profile.d/git-prompt.sh.  Gentoo uses
    /usr/share/bash-completion/git-prompt.  Maybe others use
    some other path.

 2) The scripts themselves suggest copying to ~/.git-completion.sh
    and ~/.git-prompt.sh.

Proposal:

  1) /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-prompt
  2) git-sh-prompt(1)

Sensible?

Does the LSB provide any guidance? If not, or if such guidance isn't
helpful, I say that looks reasonable.

What I'd like to know is why we are saying "copy" when symlinking is
likely to be more easily maintainable? (Less chance to screw up.)

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