From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Magit very slow Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:19:15 -0400 Message-ID: <87lj8bmhrg.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281662395 12862 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2010 01:19:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Andrea Crotti Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 03:19:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojiw6-0004ZX-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:19:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47361 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ojiw5-00083S-Ke for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34228 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjivY-00082Z-UP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjivY-000720-0x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from markov.stats.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.210.1]:58913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjivX-00071u-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (blackcap.stats [163.1.210.5]) by markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o7D1JHJq001964; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:19:17 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: by blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 5158) id 98353201C7; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:19:17 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Andrea Crotti's message of "Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:22:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74587 Archived-At: Andrea Crotti writes: > I love magit, it's really nice to see all the changes and commit in such > a smart way. > But sometimes when there are many files or many changes is terribly > slow, it takes minutes instead of seconds that really take to git to do > the same thing from the shell. > > Am I the only one experiencing it or is a common problem? Yes, magit for me is often very slow compared to using git from the command line. An example of a slow command is log ('l'). Certainly doesn't stop me using it all the time, but it can be slow. Making sure .gitignore ignores as much as possible can help. Dan emacs 23.2.1 magit commit 6838ae1 (July 28) ubuntu 10.04 Dell Mini 10v