On 30.10.20 18:19, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stefan Haller <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> How is that completion script developed, maintained and distributed? > > I think we should ask this question to those in Zsh development > community. > >>> By "by default" I believe you mean that it gets installed when you >>> install zsh automatically. Is the situation different on macOS land >>> (which I can believe, unfortunately)? >> >> It's the same on Mac; I get zsh's builtin git completion when I don't >> install ours. > > I see. That makes sense. > >>> Stefan? If at least some people argue what comes with zsh by >>> default is more complete than the one we have in contrib/, what led >>> you choose to "symlink" the less complete one to use it instead? >> >> I'm not sure I can answer the question which one is more complete. Ours >> is certainly complete enough for my daily use, but this might not mean much. >> >> The reason why I chose ours over the one that comes with zsh is that >> ours is *way* faster. If I type "git log origin/mas<tab>", with zsh's >> completion it takes between one and two seconds to auto-complete this to >> "origin/master". With ours it's instantaneous. > > That is a very good data point. I re-read the blurb on the > "gitfast" thing (below) in ohmyzsh and learned that ... > >>> Another question (this is for Felipe). Is >>> >>> https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins/gitfast >>> >>> the one that comes with zsh by default, or is it something else >>> (perhaps it is the go-to version for those who are not satisfied >>> with the version that comes with zsh by default???)? > > ... it repackages what we have in contrib/ and promises a faster > completion (which aligns with the reason you stated why you chose > ours) than the Zsh default one and being always fresh (by frequent > updates from our contrib/). In other words, my understanding is > that it is positioned as a competitor to the Zsh default. > > After making a brief observation for my previous message in the > thread, I understand that oh-my-zsh is a very popular colleciton of > third-party stuff for Zsh users, so it seems to me that the real > useful choices, if I or somebody else were to become a new Zsh user, > are between sticking with the Zsh default or grabbing the improved > version from oh-my-zsh collection. I could also use from our > contrib/ but I would have to ask myself twice why should I, as a > (hypothetical) new Zsh user, bother, especially when the latter > promises to be always fresh anyway. Using stuff from oh-my-zsh is not an option for me. I'm not using oh-my-zsh, and I don't want to begin using it just for this one package. I could use Felipe's version from <https://github.com/felipec/git-completion> (and in fact, that's what I'm doing right now, for testing. Works great. :-) However, I'd have to remember to manually update it every so often. So yes, I prefer to use the one from git's distribution, because it is automatically kept up to date whenever I update git (as long as I symlink to it rather than copy it.) -Stefan
