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SZEDER Gábor b2b6811451 completion: don't disambiguate short refs
When the completion script lists short refs it does so using the 'git
for-each-ref' format 'refname:short', which makes sure that all listed
refs are unambiguous.  While disambiguating refs is technically
correct in this case, as opposed to the cases discussed in the
previous patch, this disambiguation involves several stat() syscalls
for each ref, thus, unfortunately, comes at a steep cost especially on
Windows and/or when there are a lot of refs to be listed.  A user of
Git for Windows reported[1] 'git checkout <TAB>' taking ~11 seconds in
a repository with just about 4000 refs.

However, it's questionable whether ambiguous refs are really that bad
to justify that much extra cost:

  - Ambiguous refs are not that common,
  - even if a repository contains ambiguous refs, they only hurt when
    the user actually happens to want to do something with one of the
    ambiguous refs, and
  - the issue can be easily circumvented by renaming those ambiguous
    refs.

  - On the other hand, apparently not that many refs are needed to
    make refs completion unacceptably slow on Windows,
  - and this slowness bites each and every time the user attempts refs
    completion, even when the repository doesn't contain any ambiguous
    refs.
  - Furthermore, circumventing the issue might not be possible or
    might be considerably more difficult and requires various
    trade-offs (e.g. working in a repository with only a few selected
    important refs while keeping a separate repository with all refs
    for reference).

Arguably, in this case the benefits of technical correctness are
rather minor compared to the price we pay for it, and we are better
off opting for performance over correctness.

Use the 'git for-each-ref' format 'refname:strip=2' to list short refs
to spare the substantial cost of disambiguating.

This speeds up refs completion considerably.  Uniquely completing a
branch in a repository with 100k local branches, all packed, best of
five:

  On Linux, before:

    $ time __git_complete_refs --cur=maste

    real    0m1.662s
    user    0m1.368s
    sys     0m0.296s

  After:

    real    0m0.831s
    user    0m0.808s
    sys     0m0.028s

  On Windows, before:

    real    0m12.457s
    user    0m1.016s
    sys     0m0.092s

  After:

    real    0m1.480s
    user    0m1.031s
    sys     0m0.060s

[1] - https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/524

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-23 11:18:22 -07:00
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server-info.c
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Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.

Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.

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