staging files is slow for large repos

[dasl-]

Describe the bug
When I stage a file by pressing A or SPACE, it takes 1 to 3 seconds for the file to become staged. The repo I am working on is large: 430,000 commits and 15,000 branches.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Centos Linux <redacted> 3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 21 23:36:36 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Lazygit Version 0.31.4
• The last commit id 02bf6a5

[mark2185]

Does the same happen when you add it manually through git?

[mark2185]

@dasl- could you test current master? I do believe #2072 should help with this exact use case.

[ponsheng]

@mark2185, I had the same issue with version 0.35 on Linux.
And it got resolved with current master (36c6462).
Thanks.

[liancheng]

TL;DR: Set the standard Git configuration status.showUntrackedFiles to normal resolved this issue for me.

I hit this issue recently. By running lazygit --debug and lazygit --logs, I saw that LazyGit took 10 seconds to run git status. The concrete command line was:

Sep 18 13:17:45 |INFO| git status --untracked-files=all --porcelain -z (10.577895417s)

Running the same command with --untracked-files=normal was significantly faster. By reading LazyGit source code, I found that this is controlled by the standard Git status.showUntrackedFiles config. Setting it to normal globally or locally in my large repo resolved my performance issue.

[ChrisMcD1]

/close

Seems like we have a fix, and a workaround if the fix doesn't work.