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

FWW here is a hack to __git_complete_refs that does the trick

__git_complete_refs ()

{ local remote track pfx cur_="$cur" sfx=" "

while test $# != 0; do
    case "$1" in
    --remote=*) remote="${1##--remote=}" ;;
    --track)    track="yes" ;;
    --pfx=*)    pfx="${1##--pfx=}" ;;
    --cur=*)    cur_="${1##--cur=}" ;;
    --sfx=*)    sfx="${1##--sfx=}" ;;
    *)      return 1 ;;
    esac
    shift
done
echo cur_ $cur_ > a
 if [[  $GIT_COMPLETION_CHECKOUT_NO_GUESS != 1 || $cur_ == "origin"* ]]; then
    __gitcomp_direct "$(__git_refs "$remote" "$track" "$pfx" "$cur_" "$sfx")"
  else
    __gitcomp_direct "$(__git_heads  "" "$cur_")"
  fi

}