From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:46:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Speed up bash completion loading
Message-ID: <1258242380.9650.90.camel@swboyd-laptop>
In-Reply-To: <20091114110141.GB1829@progeny.tock>

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 05:01 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Stephen Boyd wrote:
> 
> > I see a small problem, but it can be fixed in another patch. git
> > merge -s <TAB><TAB> the first time when you're not in a git
> > directory will make git merge -s <TAB><TAB> after never complete
> > correctly even in a git directory.
> 
> Not good.  I think the sanest thing to do is avoid caching the merge
> strategy list entirely.  Listing merge strategies takes about 100 ms
> here, which is short enough not to be annoying.
> 

I was thinking of adding an option to git merge (like --strategies) to
list the strategies without requiring you to be in a git directory. It
doesn't look that easy at first glance so it might not be worth the
trouble.