Add tab completion for Git branches in Powershell

For that to be possible, a git provider for PowerShell would need to exist.

After a quick search, something similar apparently exists, the bizarre but aptly named posh-git:

http://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git

A set of PowerShell scripts which provide Git/PowerShell integration

• Prompt for Git repositories: The prompt within Git repositories can show the current branch and the state of files (additions, modifications,
  deletions) within.
• Tab completion: Provides tab completion for common commands when using git. E.g. git ch<tab> --> git checkout

Usage

See profile.example.ps1 as to how you can integrate the tab completion and/or git prompt into your own profile. You can also choose whether advanced git commands are shown in the tab expansion or only simple/common commands. Default is simple.

I wrote this little PS "gem", if posh-git is too much.
Just put it in your PowerShell profile to be able to type co  (with a space) and hit Tab to trigger completion and cycle through the list of branches:

function co{    param(        [Parameter(Mandatory)]        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]        [ArgumentCompleter({            param($pCmd, $pParam, $pWord, $pAst, $pFakes)            $branchList = (git branch --format='%(refname:short)')            if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($pWord)) {                return $branchList;            }            $branchList | Select-String "$pWord"        })]        [string] $branch    )    git checkout $branch;}

UPDATE: refactored to return a list of branches when tab-completion invoked after space and no partial string can be matched. Will return "master" if this is only one branch

As a bonus, did you know you can call TortoiseGit from shell?

function dif{    TortoiseGitProc.exe /command:repostatus}