Yes, I tried it but it's the same (same zprof output too).

I tried to unplug the completer provided by _git for this context with:
zstyle ':completion:*:*:git:ignored-other-files' _path_files
but there must be something I missed with zstyle syntax, because it does not
work (the part that matters is here:
https://github.com/now/zsh/blob/git/Completion/Unix/Command/_git#L59).

2011/1/30 Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>

> Julien Nicoulaud wrote:
> [...]
> > It seems that the completion recurses under the whole repository, instead
> of
> > just displaying the first level files and directories.
>
> Did you try if Nikolai's updated _git from
> <http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2011/msg00088.html> improves the
> situation?
>
> Regards, Frank
>
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