Re: git completion horribly slow in kernel tree

[Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:30:05PM +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> Hm, I don't really know... git ls-tree seems to not want to output ..,
> if you specify --full-name, it does show the dir you specify, but
> relative to the root of the project. So if you're in proj/dir1/dir2
> and git ls-tree --full-name --name-only HEAD .., you will get files
> shown as dir1/file1. I guess it's possible to use that output, but
> maybe it's easier to just manually cd to the proj/ dir first :). I
> just looked at the bash completer (which is very confusing code), and
> it seems to use something like
> git --git-dir=$(git rev-parse --git-dir) ls-tree $ref:prefix
> which lists the file as file1 instead of dir1/file1. (no idea why it
> doesn't use --name-only).

I just looked and git-add completion is using ls-files, which can't
handle relative paths either.