>From the output of ls-files, we remove all but the leftmost path component and then we eliminate duplicates. We do this in a while loop, which is a performance bottleneck when the number of iterations is large (e.g. for 60000 files in linux.git). $ COMP_WORDS=(git status -- ar) COMP_CWORD=3; time _git real 0m11.876s user 0m4.685s sys 0m6.808s Using an equivalent sed script improves performance significantly: $ COMP_WORDS=(git status -- ar) COMP_CWORD=3; time _git real 0m1.372s user 0m0.263s sys 0m0.167s The measurements were done with mingw64 bash, which is used by Git for Windows. Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxxx> --- contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index 6da95b8..e3ddf27 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -384,12 +384,7 @@ __git_index_files () local root="${2-.}" file __git_ls_files_helper "$root" "$1" | - while read -r file; do - case "$file" in - ?*/*) echo "${file%%/*}" ;; - *) echo "$file" ;; - esac - done | sort | uniq + sed -e '/^\//! s#/.*##' | sort | uniq } # Lists branches from the local repository. -- 2.7.4