Re: [PATCH 00/12] completion: speed up refs completion

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:53 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This series speeds up refs completion for large number of refs, partly
> by giving up disambiguating ambiguous refs (patch 6) and partly by
> eliminating most of the shell processing between 'git for-each-ref'
> and 'ls-remote' and Bash's completion facility.  The rest is a bit of
> preparatory reorganization, cleanup and bugfixes.
>
> The last patch touches the ZSH wrapper, too.  By a lucky educated
> guess I managed to get it work on the first try, but I don't really
> know what I've actually done, so...  ZSH users, please have a closer
> look.
>
> At the end of this series refs completion from a local repository is
> as fast as it can possibly get, at least as far as the completion
> script is concerned, because it basically does nothing anymore :)  All
> it does is run 'git for-each-ref' with assorted options to do all the
> work, and feed its output directly, without any processing into Bash's
> COMPREPLY array.  There is still room for improvements in the code
> paths using 'git ls-remote', but for that we would need enhancements
> to 'ls-remote'.
>
> It goes on top of the __gitdir() improvements series I just posted at:
>
>   http://public-inbox.org/git/20170203024829.8071-1-szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx/T/
>
> This series is also available at:
>
>   https://github.com/szeder/git completion-refs-speedup
>

Nice! This is something i've been bothered by in the past since
completion would take a rather long time!

Regards,
Jake




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