Experimental: attempt to directly load known knife commandsmp/experiment-direct-load

Instead of loading all of them then searching, try to
load just the requested commanmd if we can find it by path.

Signed-off-by: Marc A. Paradise <marc.paradise@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/knife/acl_base.rb b/lib/chef/knife/acl_base.rb
index 0835d1ac05..d9a0a222c3 100644
--- a/lib/chef/knife/acl_base.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/knife/acl_base.rb
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ require_relative "../knife"
 class Chef
   class Knife
     module AclBase
+      Kernel.puts "LOADING ANYWAY HAHAHAH"
 
       PERM_TYPES = %w{create read update delete grant}.freeze unless defined? PERM_TYPES
       MEMBER_TYPES = %w{client group user}.freeze unless defined? MEMBER_TYPES
diff --git a/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb b/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb
index 26d7e0277c..6a67711d7f 100644
--- a/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb
@@ -111,7 +111,20 @@ class Chef
         load_commands
       end
 
-      def load_command(_command_args)
+      def load_command(command_args)
+        return true if @loaded
+        cmd_words = positional_arguments(command_args)
+        partial_path = "#{cmd_words.join("_")}.rb"
+
+        # Take a best shot at loading the command before falling back to loading
+        # all commands.
+        subcommand_files.each do |file|
+          if file.end_with?(partial_path)
+            @loaded = true
+            Kernel.load file
+          end
+        end
+        # If we've set @loaded, this will  noop
         load_commands
       end