Disable auto-completion of remote branches in Git Bash?

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I'm working on a fairly large git repo with a couple of thousand (remote) branches. I am used to using auto-completion (using [TAB]) in the console (Git Bash in that case), so I unconsciously do that for git commands, too.

e.g. I'd type

git checkout task[TAB]

with the effect that the console stalls for often minutes. Is there a way to limit auto-completion to local branches only?

windows git
9 Answers

Carey Metcalfe wrote a blog post containing a solution that also edits the auto-completion function, but with slightly newer code than other answers. He also defines an alias checkoutr that keeps the old auto-complete behavior in case it’s ever needed.

In short, first create the checkoutr alias with this command:

git config --global alias.checkoutr checkout

Then find git-completion.bash, copy the _git_checkout function into your shell’s RC file so that it gets redefined, and inside that function, replace this line:

__git_complete_refs $track_opt

with the following lines:

if [ "$command" = "checkoutr" ]; then
    __git_complete_refs $track_opt
else
    __gitcomp_direct "$(__git_heads "" "$cur" " ")"
fi

See the blog post for more details and potential updates to the code.

user_5782880

FWW here is a hack to __git_complete_refs that does the trick

__git_complete_refs ()

{ local remote track pfx cur_="$cur" sfx=" "

while test $# != 0; do
    case "$1" in
    --remote=*) remote="${1##--remote=}" ;;
    --track)    track="yes" ;;
    --pfx=*)    pfx="${1##--pfx=}" ;;
    --cur=*)    cur_="${1##--cur=}" ;;
    --sfx=*)    sfx="${1##--sfx=}" ;;
    *)      return 1 ;;
    esac
    shift
done
echo cur_ $cur_ > a
 if [[  $GIT_COMPLETION_CHECKOUT_NO_GUESS != 1 || $cur_ == "origin"* ]]; then
    __gitcomp_direct "$(__git_refs "$remote" "$track" "$pfx" "$cur_" "$sfx")"
  else
    __gitcomp_direct "$(__git_heads  "" "$cur_")"
  fi

}

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