Subject: [PATCHv2 09/14] completion: let 'for-each-ref' strip the remote name from remote branches

From: SZEDER Gábor <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:29:19 +0100

The code listing unique remote branches for 'git checkout's tracking
DWIMery uses a shell parameter expansion in a loop iterating over each
listed ref to remove the remote's name from the remote branches, i.e.
the leading path component from the short ref.  When listing refs from
a configured remote repository, '| sed s///' is used for the same
purpose.

Let 'git for-each-ref' strip one more leading path component from the
refs, i.e. use the format 'refname:strip=3' instead of '=2', making
that parameter expansion and 'sed' execution unnecessary.

This speeds up refs completion for 'git checkout'.  Uniquely
completing a branch for 'git checkout maste<TAB>' in a repo with 100k
remote branches, all packed, best of five:

  On Linux, near the beginning of this series, for reference:

    $ time __git_complete_refs --cur=maste --track

    real    0m8.185s
    user    0m6.896s
    sys     0m1.616s

  Before this patch:

    real    0m2.714s
    user    0m2.344s
    sys     0m0.436s

  After:

    real    0m1.993s
    user    0m1.740s
    sys     0m0.304s

  On Windows, near the beginning:

    real    1m8.421s
    user    0m7.591s
    sys     0m3.557s

  Before this patch:

    real    0m8.191s
    user    0m4.638s
    sys     0m2.918s

  After:

    real    0m6.187s
    user    0m3.358s
    sys     0m2.121s

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <[email-masked]>
---
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 976f80598..206eaf0ca 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -423,11 +423,10 @@ __git_refs ()
 			# Try to find a remote branch that matches the completion word
 			# but only output if the branch name is unique
 			local ref entry
-			__git for-each-ref --shell --format="ref=%(refname:strip=2)" \
+			__git for-each-ref --shell --format="ref=%(refname:strip=3)" \
 				"refs/remotes/" | \
 			while read -r entry; do
 				eval "$entry"
-				ref="${ref#*/}"
 				if [[ "$ref" == "$match"* ]]; then
 					echo "$ref"
 				fi
@@ -450,9 +449,9 @@ __git_refs ()
 			case "HEAD" in
 			$match*)	echo "HEAD" ;;
 			esac
-			__git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:strip=2)" \
+			__git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:strip=3)" \
 				"refs/remotes/$remote/$match*" \
-				"refs/remotes/$remote/$match*/**" | sed -e "s#^$remote/##"
+				"refs/remotes/$remote/$match*/**"
 		else
 			local query_symref
 			case "HEAD" in
-- 
2.12.1.485.g1616aa492