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Re: git-gui is slow to display a large number of changed/new files

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 30, 2009, 14:47 UTC
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2009/6/29 Dan Zwell <dzwell@zwell.net>:
> Is this behavior worth changing? I doubt the scenario I encountered is a
> common one.

It happens. There are imported repositories, and things like CVS/SVN/Perforce force people to do giant commits. So yes, it definitely is worth looking into.

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> ... However, I have written a patch to display at most 5000
> changed/new files, warning the user that the list has been truncated. If
> this is a worthy change, I can submit the patch--I can also change it so
> that the maximum number of displayed files is taken from git's
> configuration.
Even 5000 is insane, so that would be a good start, for sure.
Paul Mackerras is gitk's maintainer, remember to put him on Cc:
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  1. Dan ZwellJun 29, 2009
  2. Alex RiesenJun 30, 2009

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