From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:38:29 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash completion: Improve responsiveness of git-log completion Message-ID: <7vy745piqy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20080713023742.GA31760@spearce.org> "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > Junio noticed the bash completion has been taking a long time lately.... The credit actually goes to Ingo. > Petr Baudis tracked it down to 72e5e989b ("bash: Add space after > unique command name is completed."). Tracing the code showed > we spent significant time inside of this loop within __gitcomp, > due to the string copying overhead.... > ... > Does this make things better? Or worse? I'm not seeing a huge > difference on my own system. Maybe its too fast these days... Ingo, I understand you have stopped using the completion long time ago due to this latency issue. Together with d773c63 (bash: offer only paths after '--', 2008-07-08) that already is in 'maint' and 'master', this hopefully would make the completion usable for you again?