Disable auto-completion of remote branches in Git Bash?

Question

I\'m working on a fairly large git repo with a couple of thousand (remote) branches. I am used to using auto-completion (using [TAB]) in the console (Git Bash in that case),

Answer 1

I'm not using Git Bash myself, but if this is the same as mentioned in http://tekrat.com/2008/04/30/bash-autocompletion-git-super-lazy-goodness/, you should be able to replace git branch -a with a plain git branch in

_complete_git() {
  if [ -d .git ]; then
    branches=`git branch -a | cut -c 3-`
    tags=`git tag`
    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
    COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${branches} ${tags}" -- ${cur}) )
  fi
}
complete -F _complete_git git checkout

(in your .profile or similar) and get what you want.