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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by aldanor on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:09PM (#15953164)
Well. That depends :) I don't develop in Emacs and use it solely for hosting Magit, in a separate window. So it's kind of a GUI I guess; more so than a CLI anyway.

> It's Achilles' heel is speed, though -- too damn slow. (Last time I tried it, anyway, which was a while ago.)

Don't remember a single of case of it feeling too slow in the last few years, whether on linux/mac... (maybe it just got better over time though)

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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by dilap on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:22PM (#15953304)
interesting. i'm on mac; i'll have to give it another try. also we might just have different ideas of "too slow"; for common operations, anything more than instant is basically too slow. :-)
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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by tarsius on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:44PM (#15953517)
On macOS it helps to use Emacs 26.1 (unreleased but very solid) or to use a build with a backport of the vfork patch. For more information see https://magit.vc/manual/magit/MacOS-Performance.html.

I also plan to make Magit faster across all platforms.

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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by dilap on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:50PM (#15953565)
very cool to hear that performance is a focus area!
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