From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:43:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git abbref-ref: new porcelain for abbreviate_ref()
Message-ID: <36ca99e90809220943i696c6c7ep2da2225e8a489769@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080922153222.GD3669@spearce.org>

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 17:32, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> This gives direct access to the abbreviate_ref() function. The operation
>> mode defaults to the core.warnambiguousrefs value, like the refname:short
>> format, but can be explicitly changed with the --{,no}-strict option.
>>
>> The bash completion script utilizes this new command.
>
> And it slows down too, doesn't it?  Now we are doing a fork per
> branch during completion.  Yikes.  Didn't you just post a series
> about making completion faster?
No, correctness was and is my concern, so this patch fits well into this.

Bert