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I liked zsh a lot until I found that it would take a long time to cd into certain directories, I think they were ones with large git repositories. Maybe there's

by it 14y ago

I liked zsh a lot until I found that it would take a long time to cd into certain directories, I think they were ones with large git repositories. Maybe there's some way to shut that off but I went back to bash where I could be sure things would be responsive.

Pawka 14y ago
Same problem here. I think this is based on git plugin, since it displays current branch when you cd into directory. You can try disable that plugin.
trinary 14y ago
Some of the plugins included in contrib, as well as really feature heavy pre-made configs like oh-my-zsh can slow things down. They're good to use as a starting point, but you can make the features you actually want really fast with some research.
mise 14y ago
One thing I have noticed is a delay in tab completion with the `git checkout` command. In my plain gnome-terminal with git it would instantly autocomplete when I pressed tab.
davvid 14y ago
Were you using oh-my-zsh? I have a few patches that speed up its git plugin by letting you opt-out of expensive operations. https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/commits/davvid https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/commits/davvid Last I checked, oh-my-zsh was in transition to a new version(?), and the pull requests have generally been ignored because of this.
- it 14y ago
  Yes, I was using oh-my-zsh. I'd like to try it again if it's easy to make it non-slow.
  - davvid 14y ago
    Some of the secret details are in my theme: https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/blob/davvid/themes/davvid.zsh-theme https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/blob/davvid/themes/davvi... ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="" ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN="" which lets it avoid expensive checks that my prompt doesn't need (it already shows that info elsewhere). The real big win is that I export `POST_1_7_2_GIT=1` in `~/.zshrc` and the tweaks I made teach the git plugin to use `--ignore-submodule=dirty` when calling `git status`, which makes a huge difference. I haven't caught up with oh-my-zsh in a bit; if there's a good place for me to rebase onto and do a new pull request I will. Does anybody know who the real oh-my-zsh maintainer is these days?
masklinn 14y ago
> Maybe there's some way to shut that off Not using oh-my-zsh or the like, zsh has lots of hooks and omz uses a lot of this hooks for or around git repos, so CD-ing into a git repo entails loads of work. Use vanilla zsh and configure as needed, and it'll be as zippy as everywhere else.

by it 14y ago

Pawka 14y ago

Same problem here. I think this is based on git plugin, since it displays current branch when you cd into directory. You can try disable that plugin.

trinary 14y ago

Some of the plugins included in contrib, as well as really feature heavy pre-made configs like oh-my-zsh can slow things down. They're good to use as a starting point, but you can make the features you actually want really fast with some research.

mise 14y ago

One thing I have noticed is a delay in tab completion with the `git checkout` command. In my plain gnome-terminal with git it would instantly autocomplete when I pressed tab.

davvid 14y ago

Were you using oh-my-zsh? I have a few patches that speed up its git plugin by letting you opt-out of expensive operations. https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/commits/davvid https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/commits/davvid Last I checked, oh-my-zsh was in transition to a new version(?), and the pull requests have generally been ignored because of this.

it 14y ago
Yes, I was using oh-my-zsh. I'd like to try it again if it's easy to make it non-slow.
- davvid 14y ago
  Some of the secret details are in my theme: https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/blob/davvid/themes/davvid.zsh-theme https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/blob/davvid/themes/davvi... ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="" ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN="" which lets it avoid expensive checks that my prompt doesn't need (it already shows that info elsewhere). The real big win is that I export `POST_1_7_2_GIT=1` in `~/.zshrc` and the tweaks I made teach the git plugin to use `--ignore-submodule=dirty` when calling `git status`, which makes a huge difference. I haven't caught up with oh-my-zsh in a bit; if there's a good place for me to rebase onto and do a new pull request I will. Does anybody know who the real oh-my-zsh maintainer is these days?

masklinn 14y ago

> Maybe there's some way to shut that off Not using oh-my-zsh or the like, zsh has lots of hooks and omz uses a lot of this hooks for or around git repos, so CD-ing into a git repo entails loads of work. Use vanilla zsh and configure as needed, and it'll be as zippy as everywhere else.