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Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] bash prompt speedup

From
SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date
Jun 18, 2013, 02:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20130618022826.GA2204@goldbirke>
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<1371521826-3225-1-git-send-email-szeder@ira.uka.de>

Forgot to mention that it's built on top of 2847cae8 (prompt: squelch error output from cat, 2013-06-14).

Best, Gábor

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 04:16:53AM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> displaying the git-specific bash prompt on Windows/MinGW takes quite
> long, long enough to be noticeable.  This is mainly caused by the
> numerous fork()s and exec()s to create subshells and run git or other
> commands, which are rather expensive on Windows.
> 
> This patch series eliminates many command substitutions and commands
> in __git_ps1() from top to bottom by replacing them with bash builtins
> or consolidating them.  A few timing results are shown in the log
> message of patch 10.
> 
> 
> SZEDER Gábor (13):
>   bash prompt: fix redirection coding style in tests
>   bash prompt: fix here document indentation in interactive rebase test
>   completion, bash prompt: move __gitdir() tests to completion test
>     suite
>   bash prompt: add a test for symbolic link symbolic refs
>   bash prompt: return early from __git_ps1() when not in a git
>     repository
>   bash prompt: run 'git rev-parse --git-dir' directly instead of
>     __gitdir()
>   bash prompt: use bash builtins to find out rebase state
>   bash prompt: use bash builtins to find out current branch
>   bash prompt: use bash builtins to get detached HEAD abbrev. object
>     name
>   bash prompt: combine 'git rev-parse' executions
>   bash prompt: use bash builtins to check stash state
>   bash prompt: avoid command substitution when checking for untracked
>     files
>   bash prompt: avoid command substitution when finalizing gitstring
> 
>  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |   2 -
>  contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh       | 223 ++++++++++++-----------
>  t/t9902-completion.sh                  | 134 ++++++++++++++
>  t/t9903-bash-prompt.sh                 | 319 +++++++++++----------------------
>  4 files changed, 345 insertions(+), 333 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1.487.g8f4672d
> 
Previous: SZEDER GáborNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 20 of 22 in “bash prompt speedup”
  1. 00/13 bash prompt speedupSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  2. 01/13 bash prompt: fix redirection coding style in testsSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  3. 02/13 bash prompt: fix here document indentation in interactive rebase testSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  4. Jeff KingJun 18, 2013
  5. 03/13 completion, bash prompt: move __gitdir() tests to completion test suiteSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  6. 04/13 bash prompt: add a test for symbolic link symbolic refsSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  7. 05/13 bash prompt: return early from __git_ps1() when not in a git repositorySZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  8. 06/13 bash prompt: run 'git rev-parse --git-dir' directly instead of __gitdir()SZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  9. Eric SunshineJun 18, 2013
  10. 07/13 bash prompt: use bash builtins to find out rebase stateSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  11. 08/13 bash prompt: use bash builtins to find out current branchSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  12. 09/13 bash prompt: use bash builtins to get detached HEAD abbrev. object nameSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  13. 10/13 bash prompt: combine 'git rev-parse' executionsSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  14. Jeff KingJun 18, 2013
  15. SZEDER GáborJun 18, 2013
  16. fixup! bash prompt: use bash builtins to find out current branchSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  17. 11/13 bash prompt: use bash builtins to check stash stateSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  18. 12/13 bash prompt: avoid command substitution when checking for untracked filesSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  19. 13/13 bash prompt: avoid command substitution when finalizing gitstringSZEDER Gábor, Jun 18, 2013
  20. SZEDER GáborJun 18, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoJun 18, 2013
  22. Simon OosthoekJun 18, 2013

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