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Re: [PATCH] git-completion: Add git help completion for aliases

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2011, 09:16 UTC
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2011/3/22 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>:
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:53:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> This is a constructive tangent but if we are going to run $(__git_aliases)
>> every time we run _git_help, perhaps it would want a hack similar to the
>> way the value for $__git_all_commands is generated just once?
>
> I think this is not necessary.  We already run __git_aliases() every
> time after 'git <TAB>', and it was not an issue so far.  And indeed, I
> just created 50 aliases, and the time required for __git_aliases()
> seems to be negligible:
>
>  $ time __git_aliases
>  <bunch of aliases>
>
>  real    0m0.028s
>  user    0m0.016s
>  sys     0m0.004s
>

Unfortunately, the situation is not quite so good on Windows: $ time __git_aliases <bunch of aliases>

real 0m0.112s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.015s

This is with 50 aliases, with 0 aliases I get this: $ time __git_aliases test

real 0m0.063s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.015s

Previous: SZEDER GáborNext: Erik Faye-Lund
Message 7 of 19 in “git-completion: Add git help completion for aliases”
  1. git-completion: Add git help completion for aliasesJakob Pfender, Mar 21, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2011
  3. Johannes SchindelinMar 21, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2011
  5. Johannes SchindelinMar 22, 2011
  6. SZEDER GáborMar 22, 2011
  7. Erik Faye-LundMar 22, 2011
  8. Erik Faye-LundMar 22, 2011
  9. SZEDER GáborMar 22, 2011
  10. Erik Faye-LundMar 22, 2011
  11. Michael J GruberMar 22, 2011
  12. SZEDER GáborMar 22, 2011
  13. Erik Faye-LundMar 23, 2011
  14. Jakub NarebskiMar 23, 2011
  15. Erik Faye-LundMar 23, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2011
  17. SZEDER GáborMar 22, 2011
  18. SZEDER GáborMar 22, 2011
  19. Michael J GruberMar 22, 2011

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