-# disabled because it is broken with bash_completion package. It is a known bug they hope to fix.
-# When a glob expands to nothing, make it an empty string instead of the literal characters.
-# shopt -s nullglob
+# broken with bash_completion package. Saw a bug for this once. Don't anymore.
+# still broken in wheezy
+# still buggered in latest stable from the web, version 2.1
+# perhaps its fixed in newer git version, which fails to make for me
+#shopt -s nullglob