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From: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>
Subject: Re: Magit is painfully slow
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 12:32:27 -0600
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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=E2=80=99s because it=E2=80=99s trying to colorize the diff of thous=
ands 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