Re: Bash completion very slow in large repo

[Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 10:17:19AM -0400, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> Hi Matt, have you tried turning on "feature.manyFiles"? That enables a
> few things (like the fsmonitor) that might help in large repositories.

Ah, thanks for calling that out: I should've mentioned this is in a repo that's
already configured via `git-scalar(1)`, so it sets that specific option off,
but justifies:

> feature.manyFiles=false
> This disables the "many files" optimizations grouped under this feature config.
> The expectation is that all valuable optimizations are also set explicitly by
> Scalar config, and any differences are intentional.

Though also testing in a fresh repo with no scalar but that option on I didn't
see any significant performance change.

I'm also not sure e.g. `git ls-files --exclude-standard --others --directory`
knows about things like `fsmonitor`/the untracked cache, like e.g. `git status`
does (disclaimer: I'm not at all familiar enough with the code to justify that
claim, it's based purely on my qualitative experience, I'm also not sure if it
_could_ benefit from such things)

Cheers,
Matt