We're currently working to get bash-completion at its best.
This is what we plan to do in the near future:
Please join #bash-completion on irc.debian.org if you want any information. There you'll probably find luk__ (Luk Claes) or hanska (David Paleino), who might give you some more information about the ongoing status of the project.
More information can also be found on the developer's home.
You could also want to have a look at some notes written down during the development process.
To download the latest stable release:
To download the current development version of bash-completion, you need to clone a git copy:
$ git clone git+ssh://<username>@git.debian.org/git/bash-completion/bash-completion.git
$ git clone git://git.debian.org/git/bash-completion/bash-completion.git
Please also consider having a look at gitweb: http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git
We're currently voting to choose our definitive D?VCS.
Voting deadline is 2009-02-07T23:59Z UTC. We
moved to git.
In order to successfully use bash-completion, after having installed the package, be it with a ready binary package, or the file downloaded from this page, you need to source it from either /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc. If you have bash >= 2.04, you just do it with:
# Use bash-completion, if available if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi
Just put this code somewhere in the above cited files, and re-login. Please read the README file in the source distribution, or /usr/share/doc/bash-completion/README.gz on Debian-based systems, for further information (for example, if you happen to have bash <= 2.04 or bash 1.x).
Please report any bug/wishlist/anything you want to our Alioth tracker.