Re: Magit very slow

[Glauber Alex Dias Prado]

Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I love magit, it's really nice to see all the changes and commit in such
>> a smart way.
>> But sometimes when there are many files or many changes is terribly
>> slow, it takes minutes instead of seconds that really take to git to do
>> the same thing from the shell.
>>
>> Am I the only one experiencing it or is a common problem?
>
> Yes, magit for me is often very slow compared to using git from the
> command line. An example of a slow command is log ('l'). Certainly
> doesn't stop me using it all the time, but it can be slow. Making sure
> .gitignore ignores as much as possible can help.
> 

Having a line like :

/*

on .gitignore will make it ignore everything so you can add on demand,
and about the original question magit isnt slow here i think.

>
> Dan
>
> emacs 23.2.1
> magit commit 6838ae1 (July 28)
> ubuntu 10.04
> Dell Mini 10v