diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d52c2d202..4e6124a46 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
   Scott Carter).
 - Setting 'bulk' to zero is interpreted as infinity, which means there is no
   amount of changes that is considered dangerous (thanks to Tomas Babej).
+- Disable hooks in bash completion script.  Hooks were previously able to
+  abort processing or output interfering data, breaking completion.
 
 ------ current release ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/scripts/bash/task.sh b/scripts/bash/task.sh
index 506de4a21..e0b232e5e 100644
--- a/scripts/bash/task.sh
+++ b/scripts/bash/task.sh
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 #the following variable is substituted for by ../../test/bash_completion.t
-taskcommand='task rc.verbose:nothing rc.confirmation:no'
+taskcommand='task rc.verbose:nothing rc.confirmation:no rc.hooks:off'
 
 _task_get_tags() {
     $taskcommand _tags
diff --git a/test/bash_completion.t b/test/bash_completion.t
index 2e0590c72..0ec40dc1d 100755
--- a/test/bash_completion.t
+++ b/test/bash_completion.t
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ if (open my $target, '>', 'task.sh')
     {
       my $temp=$_;
       chomp($_);
-      if ($_ eq "taskcommand='task rc.verbose:nothing rc.confirmation:no'")
+      if ($_ eq "taskcommand='task rc.verbose:nothing rc.confirmation:no rc.hooks:off'")
       {
-        print $target "taskcommand='../src/task rc.verbose:nothing rc.confirmation:no rc:bug.rc'";
+        print $target "taskcommand='../src/task rc.verbose:nothing rc.confirmation:no rc.hooks:off rc:bug.rc'";
       }
       else
       {