Re: The error subcommand given by git tab completion.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 12:42 AM Pratyush Yadav [off-list ref] wrote:

On 01/02/21 11:15PM, Hongyi Zhao wrote:

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On Ubuntu 20.04, the `git TAB' will give me the following available subcommands:

$ git TAB
add               deborig           merge             rm
am                describe          mergetool         send-email
apply             diff              mv                shortlog
archive           difftool          notes             show
bisect            fetch             pull              show-branch
blame             format-patch      push              sparse-checkout
branch            fsck              range-diff        stage
bundle            gc                rebase            stash
checkout          gitk              reflog            status
cherry            grep              remote            submodule
cherry-pick       gui               repack            switch
citool            help              replace           tag
clean             init              request-pull      whatchanged
clone             instaweb          reset             worktree
commit            latexdiff         restore
config            log               revert

Then I try the following:

$ git gui
git: 'gui' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

The most similar commands are
    gc
    grep
    init
    pull
    push

The git version is shown as below:

$ git --version
git version 2.25.1

As you can see, gui is among the auto-completed subcommands list, but
it can be run like the manner of other subcommands. Any hints for this
problem?

Do you have git-gui installed? Some distros (like Ubuntu IIRC) don't
ship git-gui by default and you have to install it separately.

Thanks a lot for your notes. The following command fixes this problem:

$ sudo apt-get install git-gui

Regards
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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao [off-list ref]
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China