On 04/21, Jeff King wrote: > > When we complete branch names for "git checkout", we also > complete remote branch names that could trigger the DWIM > behavior. Depending on your workflow and project, this can > be either convenient or annoying. > > For instance, my clone of gitster.git contains 74 local > "jk/*" branches, but origin contains another 147. When I > want to checkout a local branch but can't quite remember the > name, tab completion shows me 251 entries. And worse, for a > topic that has been picked up for pu, the upstream branch > name is likely to be similar to mine, leading to a high > probability that I pick the wrong one and accidentally > create a new branch. > > This patch adds a way for the user to tell the completion > code not to include DWIM suggestions for checkout. This can > already be done by typing: > > git checkout --no-guess jk/<TAB> > > but that's rather cumbersome. The downside, of course, is > that you no longer get completion support when you _do_ want > to invoke the DWIM behavior. But depending on your workflow, > that may not be a big loss (for instance, in git.git I am > much more likely to want to detach, so I'd type "git > checkout origin/jk/<TAB>" anyway). > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
May not be relevant to this patch per-say, but is there a way to have the completion for checkout only complete up to a part of remotes/branches? Say a forward-slash '/'. For example git.git has lots of branches which have the form: origin/<initials>/branch-name. It would be convenient if when I type: git checkout <TAB> Instead of getting a long list of 2k or so branch names that instead I would get see the remote's name e.g. 'origin/' kind of like vanilla directory completion. This way, unless I'm actually interested in the remote, I don't see the thousands of branches related to it. -- Brandon Williams
