Re: State of the repository conversion

[Óscar Fuentes]

David Engster <address@hidden> writes:

> Óscar Fuentes writes:
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>> I would encourage git newcomers to just use Magit. It provides a nice UI
>>>> for git, requiring very basic knowledge of git's specific features.
>>>
>>> That's unrelated to the issue at hand, which is how we use git at the
>>> project level.
>>
>> Magit can determine how you use git at the project level. Since it makes
>> ordinary tasks quite more simple and less error-prone, git's barroque UI
>> is no longer a significant factor.
>
> Since Eli is working on Windows, I don't think Magit is a good solution
> for him. It is pretty slow there since it is often doing an excessive
> number of calls of the Git binary under the hood.
>
> -David

Magit is slow on Windows only if you compare it to how it performs on
GNU/Linux. I regularly use Magit on a Windows netbook and it is faster
than bzr ever was on that machine. Also, there is room for improvement:
the slowest part is where Magit refreshes the buffers (after switching
to another branch, for example) and that is Emacs's VC being slow, not
Magit. I experimented with advising the VC functions that update the VC
status and the speedup is dramatic (one or two git invocations per Magit
operation instead of one per visited file.)