Re: [PATCH 00/12] completion: speed up refs completion

> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:53 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This series speeds up refs completion for large number of refs, partly
>> by giving up disambiguating ambiguous refs (patch 6) and partly by
>> eliminating most of the shell processing between 'git for-each-ref'
>> and 'ls-remote' and Bash's completion facility.  The rest is a bit of
>> preparatory reorganization, cleanup and bugfixes.
>>
>> The last patch touches the ZSH wrapper, too.  By a lucky educated
>> guess I managed to get it work on the first try, but I don't really
>> know what I've actually done, so...  ZSH users, please have a closer
>> look.
>>
>> At the end of this series refs completion from a local repository is
>> as fast as it can possibly get, at least as far as the completion
>> script is concerned, because it basically does nothing anymore :)  All
>> it does is run 'git for-each-ref' with assorted options to do all the
>> work, and feed its output directly, without any processing into Bash's
>> COMPREPLY array.  There is still room for improvements in the code
>> paths using 'git ls-remote', but for that we would need enhancements
>> to 'ls-remote'.
>>
>> It goes on top of the __gitdir() improvements series I just posted at:
>>
>>   http://public-inbox.org/git/20170203024829.8071-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com/T/
>>
>> This series is also available at:
>>
>>   https://github.com/szeder/git completion-refs-speedup
>>
>
> Nice! This is something i've been bothered by in the past since
> completion would take a rather long time!
>
> Regards,
> Jake