The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla

Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by omaranto on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:14PM (#25816715)

I think git is slow on Windows, and magit doesn't make the problem better or worse.

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by BeetleB on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:20PM (#25816767)

Nope - git is mostly fast on Windows. It's magit that's the problem - or rather how magit does things. It launches several git processes to do basic things like status or commit, and that is fundamentally slow in Windows.

See https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Microsoft-Windows-Performance....

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by omaranto on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:47PM (#25826447)

So you are saying git is slow on Windows, but only because starting any process is slow on Windows. Interesting. I've heard there is work in progress to have magit use libgit2 instead of running the git executable. That should help.

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