I haven't seen any discussion about this recently. What are the chances of getting it merged? I'd like to see this included in 2.18.
>> To get the names of all '$__git_builtin_*' variables caching --options >> of builtin commands in order to unset them, 8b0eaa41f2 (completion: >> clear cached --options when sourcing the completion script, >> 2018-03-22) runs a 'set |sed s///' pipeline. This works both in Bash >> and in ZSH, but has a higher than necessary overhead with the extra >> processes. >> >> In Bash we can do better: run the 'compgen -v __gitcomp_builtin_' >> builtin command, which lists the same variables, but without a >> pipeline and 'sed' it can do so with lower overhead. >> ZSH will still continue to run that pipeline. >> >> This change also happens to work around an issue in the default Bash >> ... >> Updated the commit message to explicitly mention that ZSH is >> unaffected. The patch is the same. > > Thanks.
