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Then the slowness that you're seeing is probably Windows-specific, and that's why everyone else is telling you that Magit is actually fast. WSL might make thin
by nequo 3y ago
Then the slowness that you're seeing is probably Windows-specific, and that's why everyone else is telling you that Magit is actually fast.
WSL might make things faster.[1] IIUC, the problem is that starting new processes is much slower on Windows than on Linux/Unix and Magit relies heavily on that. This seems to have plagued Git tooling more generally but maybe this got fixed since then.[2]
[1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/58444 https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/58444
[2] https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2395#issuecomment-171023551 https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2395#issuecomment-1710...