On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > When we complete branch names for "git checkout", we also > complete remote branch names that could trigger the DWIM > behavior. Depending on your workflow and project, this can > be either convenient or annoying. > > For instance, my clone of gitster.git contains 74 local > "jk/*" branches, but origin contains another 147. When I > want to checkout a local branch but can't quite remember the > name, tab completion shows me 251 entries. And worse, for a > topic that has been picked up for pu, the upstream branch > name is likely to be similar to mine, leading to a high > probability that I pick the wrong one and accidentally > create a new branch. > > This patch adds a way for the user to tell the completion > code not to include DWIM suggestions for checkout. This can > already be done by typing: > > git checkout --no-guess jk/<TAB> > > but that's rather cumbersome. The downside, of course, is > that you no longer get completion support when you _do_ want > to invoke the DWIM behavior. But depending on your workflow, > that may not be a big loss (for instance, in git.git I am > much more likely to want to detach, so I'd type "git > checkout origin/jk/<TAB>" anyway). > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > --- > This is flexible enough for me, but it's possible somebody would want > this on a per-repo basis. I don't know that we want to read from `git > config`, though, because it's relatively expensive to do so. People who > want per-repo settings are probably better off with a hook that triggers > when they "cd" around, and sets up their preferences. > I would use this. Completing these can get quite cumbersome to use when I have only a few local branches but many remote ones like in git.git Thanks, Jake