On Tue 18 Jun 2019 06:04, Chris Marusich <[email protected]> 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
