diff tests/test-addremove.t @ 18792:10669e24eb6c

completion: add a debugpathcomplete command The bash_completion code uses "hg status" to generate a list of possible completions for commands that operate on files in the working directory. In a large working directory, this can result in a single tab-completion being very slow (several seconds) as a result of checking the status of every file, even when there is no need to check status or no possible matches. The new debugpathcomplete command gains performance in a few simple ways: * Allow completion to operate on just a single directory. When used to complete the right commands, this considerably reduces the number of completions returned, at no loss in functionality. * Never check the status of files. For completions that really must know if a file is modified, it is faster to use status: hg status -nm 'glob:myprefix**' Performance: Here are the commands used by bash_completion to complete, run in the root of the mozilla-central working dir (~77,000 files) and another repo (~165,000 files): All "normal state" files (used by e.g. remove, revert): mozilla other status -nmcd 'glob:**' 1.77 4.10 sec debugpathcomplete -f -n 0.53 1.26 debugpathcomplete -n 0.17 0.41 ("-f" means "complete full paths", rather than the current directory) Tracked files matching "a": mozilla other status -nmcd 'glob:a**' 0.26 0.47 debugpathcomplete -f -n a 0.10 0.24 debugpathcomplete -n a 0.10 0.22 We should be able to further improve completion performance once the critbit work lands. Right now, our performance is limited by the need to iterate over all keys in the dirstate.
author Bryan O'Sullivan <bryano@fb.com>
date Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:31:28 -0700
parents 6ef3107c661e
children 9f4778027bc2
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