Aha! Yes, this works precisely as intended: the prompt works correctly, and quickly, with this change in place. - R. On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Richard Soderberg wrote: > >> Hi, I wanted to report something interesting that I found while tracing >> a severe slowdown in git-prompt.sh. >> >> https://github.com/git/git/commit/6d158cba282f22fa1548af1188f78042fed30aed#diff-f37c4f4a898819f0ca4b5ff69e81d4d9R141 >> >> Way back in this commit, someone added a useful chunk of code that works >> perfectly with svn+ssh:// URLs under basic regexes: >> >> + local svn_upstream=($(git log --first-parent -1 \ + >> --grep="^git-svn-id: \(${svn_url_pattern:2}\)" 2>/dev/null)) >> >> However, if I switch over to Perl regexes (or Extended): >> >> git config --global grep.patternType perl >> >> Then the command runs for one wall clock second and shows incorrect >> results on my repository. I eventually traced this to an issue with the >> regular expression provided, assuming the svn repository url is >> "svn+ssh://...": >> >> git log ... --grep="^git-svn-id: \(svn+ssh://...\)" 2>/dev/null >> >> The + sign isn't escaped in git-prompt.sh, which under non-basic regexes >> causes the match to fail entirely. >> >> - R. >> >> ps. git log --basic-regexp does not fix the issue, as for unknown >> reasons (I'll start another thread) the command-line option doesn't >> override grep.patternType. > > Maybe this helps? > > -- snipsnap -- > diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh > b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh > index 97eacd7..74be907 100644 > --- a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh > +++ b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh > @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ __git_ps1_show_upstream () > # get the upstream from the "git-svn-id: ..." in a commit > # message > # (git-svn uses essentially the same procedure internally) > local -a svn_upstream > - svn_upstream=($(git log --first-parent -1 \ > + svn_upstream=($(git -c grep.patternType=default log --first-parent -1 \ > --grep="^git-svn-id: \(${svn_url_pattern#??}\)" 2>/dev/null)) > if [[ 0 -ne ${#svn_upstream[@]} ]]; then > svn_upstream=${svn_upstream[${#svn_upstream[@]} - 2]} > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html