Re: [PATCH 00/14] completion: a bunch of updates

[Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de>]

On 30.10.20 18:19, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de> writes:
> 
>>> How is that completion script developed, maintained and distributed?
> 
> I think we should ask this question to those in Zsh development
> community.
> 
>>> By "by default" I believe you mean that it gets installed when you
>>> install zsh automatically.  Is the situation different on macOS land
>>> (which I can believe, unfortunately)?
>>
>> It's the same on Mac; I get zsh's builtin git completion when I don't
>> install ours.
> 
> I see.  That makes sense.
> 
>>> Stefan?  If at least some people argue what comes with zsh by
>>> default is more complete than the one we have in contrib/, what led
>>> you choose to "symlink" the less complete one to use it instead?
>>
>> I'm not sure I can answer the question which one is more complete. Ours
>> is certainly complete enough for my daily use, but this might not mean much.
>>
>> The reason why I chose ours over the one that comes with zsh is that
>> ours is *way* faster. If I type "git log origin/mas<tab>", with zsh's
>> completion it takes between one and two seconds to auto-complete this to
>> "origin/master". With ours it's instantaneous.
> 
> That is a very good data point.  I re-read the blurb on the
> "gitfast" thing (below) in ohmyzsh and learned that ...
> 
>>> Another question (this is for Felipe).  Is
>>>
>>>    https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins/gitfast
>>>
>>> the one that comes with zsh by default, or is it something else
>>> (perhaps it is the go-to version for those who are not satisfied
>>> with the version that comes with zsh by default???)?
> 
> ... it repackages what we have in contrib/ and promises a faster
> completion (which aligns with the reason you stated why you chose
> ours) than the Zsh default one and being always fresh (by frequent
> updates from our contrib/).  In other words, my understanding is
> that it is positioned as a competitor to the Zsh default.
> 
> After making a brief observation for my previous message in the
> thread, I understand that oh-my-zsh is a very popular colleciton of
> third-party stuff for Zsh users, so it seems to me that the real
> useful choices, if I or somebody else were to become a new Zsh user,
> are between sticking with the Zsh default or grabbing the improved
> version from oh-my-zsh collection.  I could also use from our
> contrib/ but I would have to ask myself twice why should I, as a
> (hypothetical) new Zsh user, bother, especially when the latter
> promises to be always fresh anyway.

Using stuff from oh-my-zsh is not an option for me. I'm not using
oh-my-zsh, and I don't want to begin using it just for this one package.

I could use Felipe's version from
<https://github.com/felipec/git-completion> (and in fact, that's what
I'm doing right now, for testing. Works great. :-)  However, I'd have to
remember to manually update it every so often.

So yes, I prefer to use the one from git's distribution, because it is
automatically kept up to date whenever I update git (as long as I
symlink to it rather than copy it.)

-Stefan