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I know it's being worked on but every time I see posts about how great magit is, it pains be because my experience is that it continues to be ungodly slow on Ma

I know it's being worked on but every time I see posts about how great magit is, it pains be because my experience is that it continues to be ungodly slow on MacOS. Other MacOS/Emacs folks, is my experience considered atypical at this point?

weaksauce 9y ago
How slow is ungodly slow to you? It's pretty slow on Firefox's code base but that repo is huge. For most things it's not lightning fast but definitely not ungodly slow.
- qdot76367 9y ago
  Oh, yeah, gecko is not a fair comparison at all for any git utility. Even on my beefy linux box, m-c takes an age to load under magit. Even doing CLI-based interactive rebases takes a while. Yay 300k+ commits.
  - weaksauce 9y ago
    Is there a tool for git that only downloads the last say 1000 or 2000 commits or is a full history tree fundamental to git working correctly?
    - yorwba 9y ago
      It's the --depth option for git clone/fetch: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#git-clone---depthltdepthgt https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#git-clone---depthltde...
Cacti 9y ago
Yes it is atypical. Have you tried looking through the github issues on the subject? There seem to be a number of possibilities, depending on your environment.
bennofs 9y ago
Are you using stock magit? I think a few of the GitHub integration plugins for example have performance issues, so it may not be Magit's fault but some of the other extension you're using.
kqr 9y ago
M-x profiler-start M-x magit M-x profiler-report You can accomplish a surprising amount of optimisation after seeing what it is that takes time.
tarsius 9y ago
That won't be much of a problem anymore once Emacs 26.1 is released. Meanwhile you can use the latest release candidate - those usually are very solid. For more information see https://magit.vc/manual/magit/MacOS-Performance.html https://magit.vc/manual/magit/MacOS-Performance.html.

weaksauce 9y ago

How slow is ungodly slow to you? It's pretty slow on Firefox's code base but that repo is huge. For most things it's not lightning fast but definitely not ungodly slow.

qdot76367 9y ago
Oh, yeah, gecko is not a fair comparison at all for any git utility. Even on my beefy linux box, m-c takes an age to load under magit. Even doing CLI-based interactive rebases takes a while. Yay 300k+ commits.
- weaksauce 9y ago
  Is there a tool for git that only downloads the last say 1000 or 2000 commits or is a full history tree fundamental to git working correctly?
  - yorwba 9y ago
    It's the --depth option for git clone/fetch: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#git-clone---depthltdepthgt https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#git-clone---depthltde...

Cacti 9y ago

Yes it is atypical. Have you tried looking through the github issues on the subject? There seem to be a number of possibilities, depending on your environment.

bennofs 9y ago

Are you using stock magit? I think a few of the GitHub integration plugins for example have performance issues, so it may not be Magit's fault but some of the other extension you're using.

kqr 9y ago

M-x profiler-start M-x magit M-x profiler-report You can accomplish a surprising amount of optimisation after seeing what it is that takes time.

tarsius 9y ago

That won't be much of a problem anymore once Emacs 26.1 is released. Meanwhile you can use the latest release candidate - those usually are very solid. For more information see https://magit.vc/manual/magit/MacOS-Performance.html https://magit.vc/manual/magit/MacOS-Performance.html.