completion: let 'for-each-ref' filter remote branches for 'checkout' DWIMery

The code listing unique remote branches for 'git checkout's tracking
DWIMery outputs only remote branches that match the current word to be
completed, but the filtering is done in a shell loop iterating over
all remote refs.

Let 'git for-each-ref' do the filtering, as it can do so much more
efficiently and we can remove that shell loop entirely.

This speeds up refs completion for 'git checkout' considerably when
there are a lot of non-matching remote refs to be filtered out.
Uniquely completing a branch in a repository with 100k remote
branches, all packed, best of five:

On Linux, before:

$ time __git_complete_refs --cur=maste --track

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

After:

real    0m0.266s
user    0m0.248s
sys     0m0.012s

On Windows, before:

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

After:

real    0m0.750s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.090s

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 206eaf0ca5457d48ad422e6a416a893cceca0e4e..394dcece6c324da6ca8bb15b7d85c831943e43ac 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -422,15 +422,9 @@ __git_refs ()
                        # employ the heuristic used by git checkout
                        # 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=3)" \
-                               "refs/remotes/" | \
-                       while read -r entry; do
-                               eval "$entry"
-                               if [[ "$ref" == "$match"* ]]; then
-                                       echo "$ref"
-                               fi
-                       done | sort | uniq -u
+                       __git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:strip=3)" \
+                               "refs/remotes/*/$match*" "refs/remotes/*/$match*/**" | \
+                       sort | uniq -u
                fi
                return
        fi