[PATCH] bashcompletion: allow skipping completion for 'hg status'

[De Mare, Mathias (Nokia - BE)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Farley [mailto:sean at farley.io]
> Sent: maandag 17 oktober 2016 20:44
> To: De Mare, Mathias (Nokia - BE) <mathias.de_mare at nokia.com>; Yuya
> Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org>
> Cc: mercurial-devel at mercurial-scm.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] bashcompletion: allow skipping completion for 'hg
> status'
> 
> "De Mare, Mathias (Nokia - BE)" <mathias.de_mare at nokia.com> writes:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Yuya Nishihara [mailto:youjah at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yuya
> >> Nishihara
> >> Sent: donderdag 13 oktober 2016 15:09
> >> To: De Mare, Mathias (Nokia - BE) <mathias.de_mare at nokia.com>
> >> Cc: mercurial-devel at mercurial-scm.org
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] bashcompletion: allow skipping completion for
> >> 'hg status'
> >>
> >> On Wed, 05 Oct 2016 09:01:51 -0500, Mathias De Maré wrote:
> >> > # HG changeset patch
> >> > # User Mathias De Maré <mathias.de_mare at nokia.com> # Date
> >> 1474879657
> >> > -7200
> >> > #      Mon Sep 26 10:47:37 2016 +0200
> >> > # Node ID 1ad8d68d6e495200969a650992f9cf7ff3f934d1
> >> > # Parent  1779dde4c9ef97cb242f8d501655f236f66e5439
> >> > bashcompletion: allow skipping completion for 'hg status'
> >>
> >> because 'hg status' might be slow? Can you add more details to the
> >> commit message?
> >
> > That's indeed the reason, it has a lot of impact on autocomplete (slowness
> for large repos on slow disks).
> 
> I had that problem, too, until I started to use watchman :-/

That is what we want to move to, but we have some problems in our current system (discussed with Wez at the sprint) that add slowness even when Watchman is in use. I'm hoping we can resolve this eventually (until then, we at least have a workaround ;-)).

Greetings,
Mathias