Git completion with aliases

Question

I have a convenient dotfiles repo on Github for you all to look at, here. FYI, git is installed via Homebrew, as with most of the executables on my system.

My git-completion in zsh works fine when I use no aliases, such as:

% git add fi<TAB> # => file.rb

But if I add an alias in my .zshrc (actually cormacrelf-dotfiles-repo/zsh/aliases.zsh), like:

alias ga="git add"
compdef _git ga=git-add

... trying to complete anything (not just files: branches, etc.) results in an error:

% git add fi
_git:19: parse error: condition expected: 1

Answer 1

setopt no_complete_aliases in your .zshrc. Yes I know, the name sounds wrong, but that works.