git-commit-vandalism/contrib
SZEDER Gábor a694258457 bash prompt: mention that PROMPT_COMMAND mode is faster
__git_ps1() is usually added to the prompt inside a command
substitution, imposing the overhead of fork()ing a subshell.  Using
__git_ps1() for $PROMPT_COMMAND is slightly faster, because it avoids
that command substitution.

Mention this in the comments about setting up the git prompt.

The whole series speeds up the bash prompt on Windows/MSysGit
considerably.  Here are some timing results in three scenarios, each
repeated 10 times:

At the top of the work tree, before:

    $ time for i in {0..9} ; do prompt="$(__git_ps1)" ; done

    real    0m1.716s
    user    0m0.301s
    sys     0m0.772s

  After:

    real    0m0.687s
    user    0m0.075s
    sys     0m0.396s

  After, from $PROMPT_COMMAND:

    $ time for i in {0..9} ; do __git_ps1 '\h:\w' '$ ' ; done

    real    0m0.546s
    user    0m0.075s
    sys     0m0.181s

At the top of the work tree, detached head, before:

    real    0m2.574s
    user    0m0.376s
    sys     0m1.207s

  After:

    real    0m1.139s
    user    0m0.151s
    sys     0m0.500s

  After, from $PROMPT_COMMAND:

    real    0m1.030s
    user    0m0.245s
    sys     0m0.336s

In a subdirectory, during rebase, stash status indicator enabled,
before:

    real    0m3.557s
    user    0m0.495s
    sys     0m1.767s

  After:

    real    0m0.717s
    user    0m0.120s
    sys     0m0.300s

  After, from $PROMPT_COMMAND:

    real    0m0.577s
    user    0m0.047s
    sys     0m0.258s

On Linux the speedup ratio is comparable to Windows, but overall it
was about an order of magnitude faster to begin with.  The last case
from above, repeated 100 times, before:

    $ time for i in {0..99} ; do prompt="$(__git_ps1)" ; done

    real    0m2.806s
    user    0m0.180s
    sys     0m0.264s

  After:

    real    0m0.857s
    user    0m0.020s
    sys     0m0.028s

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
2013-06-24 18:03:37 +02:00
..
buildsystems msvc: Fix an "unrecognized option" linker warning 2010-01-22 16:15:14 -08:00
ciabot Add checks to Python scripts for version dependencies. 2012-12-28 11:35:04 -08:00
completion bash prompt: mention that PROMPT_COMMAND mode is faster 2013-06-24 18:03:37 +02:00
convert-objects Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections 2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
credential credential-osxkeychain: support more protocols 2013-05-28 11:29:47 -07:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: document some non-optimal cases 2012-02-13 15:57:07 -08:00
diffall contrib/diffall: fix cleanup trap on Windows 2012-03-14 15:22:38 -07:00
emacs emacs: make 'git-status' work with separate git dirs 2012-11-26 09:34:28 -08:00
examples contrib/examples/git-remote.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string 2013-02-24 21:30:15 -08:00
fast-import contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: use spaces instead of tabs 2013-02-24 13:31:08 -08:00
git-jump git-jump: ignore (custom) prefix in diff mode 2012-09-17 12:31:57 -07:00
git-shell-commands Add sample commands for git-shell 2010-08-12 15:16:31 -07:00
gitview Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections 2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
hg-to-git Add checks to Python scripts for version dependencies. 2012-12-28 11:35:04 -08:00
hooks contrib/hooks/setgitperms.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string 2013-02-24 13:31:09 -08:00
mw-to-git Merge branch 'cm/remote-mediawiki-perlcritique' 2013-06-23 14:53:14 -07:00
p4import Add checks to Python scripts for version dependencies. 2012-12-28 11:35:04 -08:00
persistent-https Add persistent-https to contrib 2012-05-30 13:50:45 -07:00
remote-helpers Merge branch 'fc/remote-bzr' 2013-06-11 13:30:26 -07:00
stats contrib: update stats/mailmap script 2012-12-12 11:09:11 -08:00
subtree Merge branch 'dm/unbash-subtree' 2013-06-05 14:56:24 -07:00
svn-fe svn-fe: allow svnrdump_sim.py to run with Python 3 2013-01-24 19:32:35 -08:00
thunderbird-patch-inline contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline: do not require bash to run the script 2011-03-30 12:29:39 -07:00
vim contrib/vim: simplify instructions for old vim support 2013-01-10 14:58:54 -08:00
workdir prefer test -h over test -L in shell scripts 2010-09-27 10:48:23 -07:00
git-resurrect.sh request-pull: protect against OPTIONS_KEEPDASHDASH from environment 2010-05-01 11:02:21 -07:00
README
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh contrib/rerere-train: use installed git-sh-setup 2012-04-30 12:50:38 -07:00

Contributed Software

Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
source tree, they are in somewhat different status.  The
intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
faster.

I am not expecting to touch these myself that much.  As far as
my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
owned by their respective primary authors.  I am willing to help
if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
owners.  IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch.  If
you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.

I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory.  On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
and inactive ones from time to time.

If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
there are some general interests (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
stuff there.

-jc