Re: Magit is very slow with Guix's Git checkout

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 18 Jun 2019 06:04, Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been learning to use Magit more and more, and I really enjoy it.
> However, I've noticed that it takes a very long time (minutes) to give
> control back to me when I run "M-x magit-status" in my Guix checkout.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a way to avoid this slowdown?
> Magit is great, but it's painfully slow when I try to use it to interact
> with the Guix's Git repository.

Apparently issues like https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/3808 are
being systematically closed in favor of a plan to compute diffs in two
steps.  However I don't entirely understand the argument as magit-status
on a clean tree should be free.  I share the frustration.

Andy