Re: Magit is painfully slow

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Brett,

> I am having the weirdest issue with the Guix repository cloned from
> Savannah. Before compiling, Magit is very efficient and opens in no time
> at all. However, after compiling and generating several .po and .texi
> files Magit takes almost a whole minute to open.

That’s because it’s trying to colorize the diff of thousands of lines of
.po and .texi changes.  Since these are generated automatically, run
“git checkout -- po && git checkout -- doc” and magit will be fast
again.

-- 
Ricardo