Re: [PATCH] completion: optionally disable checkout DWIM

[Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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 <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> This is flexible enough for me, but it's possible somebody would want
> this on a per-repo basis. I don't know that we want to read from `git
> config`, though, because it's relatively expensive to do so. People who
> want per-repo settings are probably better off with a hook that triggers
> when they "cd" around, and sets up their preferences.
>

I would use this. Completing these can get quite cumbersome to use
when I have only a few local branches but many remote ones like in
git.git

Thanks,
Jake