Re: Magit is painfully slow

[Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>]

Kyle Meyer writes:

> Hello,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> However, after compiling and generating several .po and .texi
>>> files Magit takes almost a whole minute to open.
>>
>> That’s because it’s trying to colorize the diff of thousands of lines of
>> .po and .texi changes.
>
> With the default settings and no cached visibility for the repo, the
> hunks should not be expanded, so Magit isn't actually coloring/painting
> them yet.  In this case, the processing of these diffs will be slow
> regardless of whether they are painted and the CLI "git checkout"
> suggestion is good, but I think the delayed painting is worth noting
> because users may not realize that their custom visibility settings are
> making things slower.

Ricardo,
Thank you for your suggestion.


Kyle,
What do you suggest here?

Brett