On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:53 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com> 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....@gmail.com/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
