On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:12:17 +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email protected]> wrote: > Pieter Praet wrote: > > That would indeed be very useful, but do keep in mind that the > > '__git_ps1' stuff causes very noticeable delays in large repositories, > > and the vc modeline stuff was recently disabled by default [1] due to > > its performance impact. > > Yeah, it effectively runs `git status` to get what it needs. If the > repository isn't in hot cache (ie. after a reboot or a movie break, > both of which are very rare), it takes upto 30 seconds to get a > prompt: if I don't turn on the prompt, I'll have to wait that amount > of time when I execute `git status` by hand anyway. Effectively, the > prompt is just displaying information that's available for free, for > the most part.
Well, it does quite a bit more than just running git-status(1) [1]. Try cloning Arch's AUR mirror [2] into a tmpfs and just hitting return in it: Even when reading directly from RAM, it takes about half a second for the prompt to return. And besides fetching the result from Git, we'd need to post-process it in Elisp, *every time* we need to update the modeline, for example *every time* we save a file. Free it isn't... But don't get me wrong, I do agree that it would be a nice feature to have! Peace -- Pieter [1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh [2] git://pkgbuild.com/aur-mirror.git -- --- 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.
