I was just looking at this problem today. magit-status is getting slower and slower each day for one of my repos. Sign me up to be a tester.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I use magit to interact with > github.com/mozilla/mozilla-**central<http://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central>, > a fairly large repository, and it is a poor experience. My beefy laptop > with an SSD regularly janks for 10-30 seconds on synchronous git > invocations. I would like to improve the magit experience. > > I have several patches under development to make magit performant, and I > would love testers and reviewers. For example, [1] speeds up > branch-guessing significantly for me. I also have patches in the works to > > * add a mode-line indicator during refresh; > * cache some frequent git invocations; > * make displaying tree-graph output in logs an option (this is very slow > on large repositories); > * log git invocations, outputs, and record running times (so that we can > profile magit more effectively); > * make sections not be refreshed automatically. > > These almost make magit useable with mozilla-central. If you're > interested in any of these approaches, or have other requests or ideas for > making magit speedier, please let me know [2]. > > Yours, > Nick Alexander > > [1] > https://github.com/magit/**magit/pull/636<https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/636> > > [2] A few things I think are not feasible: > > It appears to me that magit essentially does not cache. This is most > evident in `magit-refresh-buffer', which tears down all sections and > synchronously invokes git to repopulate everything. (There is a small sop > to maintaining `needs-refresh' state for diffs.) I was surprised, at > first, but this seems like an excellent decision: git can cache better than > magit can, and this makes running magit in multiple repositories > transparent. > > magit does not do much refresh work asynchronously. Changing refresh to > invoke git asynchronously would be a significant reworking of the section > internals, to my eye, so I would not propose such changes. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "magit" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "magit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
