Re: Slowness issue with git completion

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On 26 April 2011 22:57, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 26 April 2011 22:23, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:
>>>> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>>> It's very easy to reproduce:
>>>>> % git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>>>>> linux
>>>>> % cd linux
>>>>> % git log v<tab>
>>>>>
>>>>> It will take a looong time to figure out anything, specially if not
>>>>> cached. I think I recall investigating the issue and finding that it's
>>>>> looking for *all* the files in the git repo.
>>>>
>>>> Well yes. This is a known issue.
>>>>
>>>> I'm fairly sure that this is due to _multi_parts, which probably doesn't
>>>> scale for jobs like that.  I once gave rewriting all that a shot and
>>>> ended up with a number of helpers for each "type" of file etc. (like
>>>> modified or ignored files).  While they were significantly quicker than
>>>> the current code, they were probably still full of bugs and
>>>> shortcomings. Also, I would have had to rewrite *large* parts of the
>>>> rest of the completion, which would have been a *major* undertaking.
>>>>
>>>> In short: It's a known issue and it's very hard to fix (if only because
>>>> it is a *lot* of work).
>>>
>>> Here's a quick solution: don't try to list files. If I want to list
>>> files, I would use '-- '. And in fact, that's exactly what the bash
>>> completion does.
>>
>> git accepts files with or without a --
>
> So?

So if the command works, we should complete it.

>>> Moreover, why do you want to be smarter than git? There are ways to
>>> ask git precisely what we want: list the contents of certain tree-ish
>>> on-demand. And in fact, that's exactly what the bash completion does:
>>>
>>> time git ls-tree HEAD -- (0m0.005s)
>>> time git ls-tree HEAD -- drivers/ (0m0.007s)
>>
>> git ls-tree doesn't allow you to filter the output files by 'changed',
>> 'new', 'unknown' etc etc.
>
> So?

So we can use ls-tree for log i guess, but not for much else, git add
will still be slow for example.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson