The one-liner awk script in __git_match_ctag() listing ctags symbol names for 'git grep <TAB>' is already smart enough to list only symbol names matching the current word to be completed.
Extend this helper function to accept prefix and suffix parameters to be prepended and appended, respectively, to each listed symbol name in the awk script, so its output won't require any additional processing or filtering in the completion script before being handed over to Bash. Use the faster __gitcomp_direct() helper instead of __gitcomp_nl() to fill the fully processed matching symbol names into Bash's COMPREPLY array. Right after 'git grep <TAB>' in current git.git with 14k+ symbol names in the tag file, best of five: Before: $ time __gitcomp_nl "$(__git_match_ctag "" tags)" real 0m0.178s user 0m0.176s sys 0m0.000s After: $ time __gitcomp_direct "$(__git_match_ctag "" tags "" " ")" real 0m0.058s user 0m0.048s sys 0m0.008s Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com> --- Notes: It's still just a simple linear search through the tags file, so there are no miracles: it's still hopelessly, unusably slow e.g. in the Linux repository. contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index 69eabc2bc..5cacb0e2e 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -1518,8 +1518,15 @@ _git_gitk () _gitk } -__git_match_ctag() { - awk "/^${1//\//\\/}/ { print \$1 }" "$2" +# Lists matching symbol names from a tag (as in ctags) file. +# 1: List symbol names matching this word. +# 2: The tag file to list symbol names from. +# 3: A prefix to be added to each listed symbol name (optional). +# 4: A suffix to be appended to each listed symbol name (optional). +__git_match_ctag () { + awk -v pfx="${3-}" -v sfx="${4-}" " + /^${1//\//\\/}/ { print pfx \$1 sfx } + " "$2" } _git_grep () @@ -1548,7 +1555,7 @@ _git_grep () case "$cword,$prev" in 2,*|*,-*) if test -r tags; then - __gitcomp_nl "$(__git_match_ctag "$cur" tags)" + __gitcomp_direct "$(__git_match_ctag "$cur" tags "" " ")" return fi ;; -- 2.12.1.498.gded7ead47