From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:12:02 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash completion: Improve responsiveness of git-log completion Message-ID: <20080713221202.GA4204@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <7vy745piqy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> * Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > > > Junio noticed the bash completion has been taking a long time lately.... > > The credit actually goes to Ingo. > > > Petr Baudis tracked it down to 72e5e989b ("bash: Add space after > > unique command name is completed."). Tracing the code showed > > we spent significant time inside of this loop within __gitcomp, > > due to the string copying overhead.... > > ... > > Does this make things better? Or worse? I'm not seeing a huge > > difference on my own system. Maybe its too fast these days... > > Ingo, I understand you have stopped using the completion long time ago > due to this latency issue. Together with d773c63 (bash: offer only > paths after '--', 2008-07-08) that already is in 'maint' and 'master', > this hopefully would make the completion usable for you again? yeah. I've checked out the latest version and applied Shawn's patch and added the patched contrib/completion/git-completion.bash back to my .bashrc and i'm not seeing the latencies anymore. Thanks! Please consider this fixed - will follow up if there's any problem left. Ingo