Hi drizzd,

first of all: thank you so much for working on this. I am sure it will
be noticeable to many Windows users, and also make my life easier.

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018, Clemens Buchacher wrote:

From the output of ls-files, we remove all but the leftmost path
component and then we eliminate duplicates. We do this in a while loop,
which is a performance bottleneck when the number of iterations is large
(e.g. for 60000 files in linux.git).

$ COMP_WORDS=(git status -- ar) COMP_CWORD=3; time _git

real    0m11.876s
user    0m4.685s
sys     0m6.808s

Using an equivalent sed script improves performance significantly:

$ COMP_WORDS=(git status -- ar) COMP_CWORD=3; time _git

real    0m1.372s
user    0m0.263s
sys     0m0.167s

The measurements were done with mingw64 bash, which is used by Git for
Windows.

Technically, it is not the *mingw64* bash, but it is an MSYS2 Bash. This
does make a little bit of a difference because of the penalty incurred by
the POSIX emulation layer provided by the MSYS2 runtime.

(And it also addresses Gabór's question whether you ran the test suite, I
guess... it takes multiple hours to run it even once on a regular
computer.)

Ciao,
Dscho