git bash_completion does not work - solved (?)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 21, 2012, at 04:53, Barrie Stott wrote:

> 
> On 20 Jul 2012, at 16:08, Clemens Lang wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:56:24AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> I am still not sure what to change or how to verify it was successful.
>>> In Lion's Terminal.app, I have opened Preferences -> Settings ->
>>> Shell, checked the "Run command" box, and filled in
>>> "/opt/local/bin/bash -l". The "Run inside shell" checkbox is not
>>> checked. The bash port is installed. If I open a new terminal window
>>> and type "echo $SHELL" it still prints "/bin/bash". Is that a correct
>>> way to verify that these steps were not successful? What else should I
>>> be doing?
> 
>> Try echo $BASH_VERSION. It should print something along the line of
>> 4.2.something. If it doesn't you're not using MacPorts bash.
> 
> I upgraded my system this morning and I now have:
> bash @4.2.29_0+universal (active)
> bash-completion @2.0_1 (active)
> 
> I ran the following:
> 
> gbs:~ $ echo $BASH_VERSION
> 3.2.48(1)-release
> gbs:~ $ /bin/bash --version
> GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)
> gbs:~ $ which bash
> /opt/local/bin/bash
> gbs:~ $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 4.2.29(2)-release (i386-apple-darwin10.8.0)
> 
> The results disagree with what Clemens said. 

But have you actually followed the instructions from earlier in this thread about how to change your shell from /bin/bash to /opt/local/bin/bash? You need to do that first.