Re: [PATCH 00/14] completion: a bunch of updates

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2020, 17:19 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh7qb3a3r.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <010c6222-4365-7446-a666-333ac7b4d415@haller-berlin.de>

Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de> writes:

>> How is that completion script developed, maintained and distributed?

I think we should ask this question to those in Zsh development community.

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>> By "by default" I believe you mean that it gets installed when you
>> install zsh automatically.  Is the situation different on macOS land
>> (which I can believe, unfortunately)?
>
> It's the same on Mac; I get zsh's builtin git completion when I don't
> install ours.

I see.  That makes sense.

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>> Stefan?  If at least some people argue what comes with zsh by
>> default is more complete than the one we have in contrib/, what led
>> you choose to "symlink" the less complete one to use it instead?
>
> I'm not sure I can answer the question which one is more complete. Ours
> is certainly complete enough for my daily use, but this might not mean much.
>
> The reason why I chose ours over the one that comes with zsh is that
> ours is *way* faster. If I type "git log origin/mas<tab>", with zsh's
> completion it takes between one and two seconds to auto-complete this to
> "origin/master". With ours it's instantaneous.

That is a very good data point. I re-read the blurb on the "gitfast" thing (below) in ohmyzsh and learned that ...

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>> Another question (this is for Felipe).  Is
>> 
>>    https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins/gitfast
>> 
>> the one that comes with zsh by default, or is it something else
>> (perhaps it is the go-to version for those who are not satisfied
>> with the version that comes with zsh by default???)?

... it repackages what we have in contrib/ and promises a faster completion (which aligns with the reason you stated why you chose ours) than the Zsh default one and being always fresh (by frequent updates from our contrib/). In other words, my understanding is that it is positioned as a competitor to the Zsh default.

After making a brief observation for my previous message in the thread, I understand that oh-my-zsh is a very popular colleciton of third-party stuff for Zsh users, so it seems to me that the real useful choices, if I or somebody else were to become a new Zsh user, are between sticking with the Zsh default or grabbing the improved version from oh-my-zsh collection. I could also use from our contrib/ but I would have to ask myself twice why should I, as a (hypothetical) new Zsh user, bother, especially when the latter promises to be always fresh anyway.

Thanks.