From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:18:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-completion: Add git help completion for aliases
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2011/3/22 Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>:
> 2011/3/22 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>:
>> 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
>

OK, apparently I have a dummy alias around from some time earlier, so
this was for 51 and 1 alias. But the point remains, it's actually a
bit of a problem on Windows.