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Re: ks/precompute-completion

From
Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 13, 2009, 07:12 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> I'm confused. Shouldn't your distro take care of updating the
>> completion for you? And wouldn't update-git-completion be more
>> suited as part of a makefile if it was needed at all?
>
> The problem is that I have git commands the distro did not install in
> my $PATH.  For example, I currently have git-new-workdir in ~/bin, and
> once I bzr-fastexport works a little better, I will install git-bzr.
>
> Even without such commands, in many distributions the completion
> should not be one size fits all, since git-svn (for example) belongs
> to a different package

Ah ok. I think this proves even more that pregenerating the completion is a bad idea. With dynamic population we don't have these problems and it only takes 250ms more to load on a P3 700Mhz.

Maybe we should try and speedup 'git help -a' and 'git merge -s help' instead? Perhaps options for the command/porcelain lists and available strategies formatted for script consumption? I doubt it will be as fast as compiling, but every bit helps apparently.

Side Note: Running git merge -s help outside a git repository fails, so caching of the merge strategies isn't very effective.

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