From: Kan-Ru Chen <kanru@kanru.info>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:30:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Bringing git-ls-files to porcelain level
Message-ID: <87zkttqqse.fsf@anar.kanru.info>
In-Reply-To: <1262884076-12293-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Hi,

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> This is a hack, to scratch my itch. These patches add "git ls",
> which is equivalent to "git ls-files --max-depth 1|column"

What is the status of this patch?

I found it might be useful for zsh completion codes. Currently zsh _git
completion relies heavily on ls-files and can be very slow on large
repository like linux kernel.

If ls-files supports --max-depth then zsh can do incremental
completion. (hopefully)

  kanru

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