From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:45:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git bash-completion is incorrect for "git pull origin mas<tab>" if the ssh key is encrypted
Message-ID: <7vehskxymy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqvclwo70a.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

>> I would rather think that the completion should ask for refs only when
>> dealing with local repositories, without going over network, whether the
>> query involves authentication or not.
>
> It depends on what "network" is. When the network is just a machine on
> the same Gb-ethernet LAN, completion can still be useful (only if you
> have password-less authentication of course). I don't use it much with
> Git, but I find it handy that ZSH completes rsync remote pathes for
> example.

Yeah, I agree it depends on your latency-tolerance (which implies that
this begs for an "I am impatient, do not go over network" switch).