From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:08:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [q] git-diff --reverse 7def2be1..7def2be1^
Message-ID: <7vk5g9kyap.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080626093726.GA24577@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> * Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> contrib/completion/git-completion.bash in git repository.  
>
> btw., i had to turn this off - it made certain types of file completions 
> almost unusable, by adding a 2-3 seconds delay (during which bash would 
> just spin around burning CPU time calculating its completion guesses).
>
> and that was on a 3 GHz dual-core box ...
>
> so please do not remove the git-* commands, they are really useful.

The slowness of the completion script (especially the time it takes before
it decides to complete pathnames) has been bothering me for some time, so
I share Ingo's frustration, but it hasn't got to the point to disable it.

After typing:

	$ git checkout master -- Docu

and then hitting the "Tab" key to complete before I see "mentation/", it
takes about 2-3 seconds for the first time, and after that it becomes
torelable.  Is it the command table bootstrapping that is taking this
long?

<offtopic> I'll be mostly offline for the rest of the day, so you do not
have to respond in a hurry. </offtopic>