Tao Klerks <tao@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Hi Tao, thanks for your response. > All this to say: I haven't understood your branch setup, but I'm > guessing that you're regularly integrating work from "far-behind" > branches, and most or all of your commits on master are therefore > merges with large diffs wrt the second parent, and those large diffs > wrt the second parent are what's "getting worse". That's exactly correct. > I haven't attempted to debug this, and personally have little > incentive to do, as switching to "git log" and accepting the process > overheads solved *my* problem. And I'm happy to report it solves *my* problem as well. There's a PR for the Magit git porcelain replacing "git show" with an equivalent "git log" incarnation which makes the 30seconds "refresh status buffer" operation instant. https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/4702 https://github.com/magit/magit/compare/km/show-to-log Still maybe someone might want to have a look at the "git show" issue to double-check if the performance burden in this specific case (no diff should be generated) is warranted. But at least I can work again with no coffee-break long pauses, so I'm all satisfied. :-) Thanks a lot for your insights. Bye, Tassilo
