romkatv / romkatv/gitstatus

Disabling altogether on individual slow repositories

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Description

I use gitstatus with Windows Subsystem for Linux, where accessing Windows disks is pretty slow. I have a couple of repositories still on Windows disks as I need them accessible to native Windows tools, which means my bash prompt can slow to 10 seconds or more evaluating the git status.

I've set the options mentioned in https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/issues/231#issuecomment-821024952:

git config --local bash.showUntrackedFiles false
git config --local bash.showDirtyState false

...which reduces the wait to about 3-4 seconds on a particularly large repository, but that's still pretty painful for interacting with it.

Can I opt-out one or more repository paths completely though config, or do I need to get my hands dirty making the bash prompt conditional on $PWD or similar?

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No file or test is named. Start at the bash prompt's handling of the existing local options bash.showUntrackedFiles and bash.showDirtyState, then trace how repository paths are evaluated. Done means a repository can be completely excluded from status evaluation through configuration, with the prompt remaining responsive there.

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Assessment

Tech stack
bash, cpp
Domain
cli, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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