From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Magit is very slow with Guix's Git checkout
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:17:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfxzmkfq.fsf@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7ef35f3.fsf@gmail.com> (Chris Marusich's message of "Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:04:32 -0700")
On Tue 18 Jun 2019 06:04, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
> I've been learning to use Magit more and more, and I really enjoy it.
> However, I've noticed that it takes a very long time (minutes) to give
> control back to me when I run "M-x magit-status" in my Guix checkout.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to avoid this slowdown?
> Magit is great, but it's painfully slow when I try to use it to interact
> with the Guix's Git repository.
Apparently issues like https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/3808 are
being systematically closed in favor of a plan to compute diffs in two
steps. However I don't entirely understand the argument as magit-status
on a clean tree should be free. I share the frustration.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-18 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-18 4:04 Magit is very slow with Guix's Git checkout Chris Marusich
2019-06-18 7:17 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2019-06-18 7:40 ` Christopher Baines
2019-06-18 7:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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