"Loading working directory changed files..." takes too long.

[placasse]

I'm using qgit to look at my commits, compare different branches from different remotes to decide which commit I should merge to my master. I frequently change from one working directory to another (a different git repos). I'd like my log to be immediately visible, but it is waiting for "Loading working directory changed files...", which is usually not my interest when I'm in qgit (I use git st and vim :Gdiff to do this). It would be nice if the working directory changes could be computed in background and be accessible only when ready. Of course with a progress loop to emphasis that something is in progress.

PS by too long I mean many seconds.

[tibirna]

Your suggestion is straightforward common sense, regardless of use case. Thanks! Will look into it.

[tibirna]

A first cursory look over the code gives two insights:

• The design of the code intentionally made that loading phase blocking. I can't immediately see how to alter things (short of a rewrite)
• Anyways, the loading phase consists of both indexing the working directory and (re)initializing the git commit database. While the second part is cached, it is probably frequently needed to invalidate the cache and reload. I also see this in the git-bash prompt on-directory-visit status extractions. I somehow feel (without having measured) that probably the working dir indexing is not the most costly part of the initial git dir loading (sorry for the vague statements, this is all the time that I had for now...)

What I mean with all this is that, unfortunately, I seem not to be able to come up with a quick fix for this. Redesign (and rewrite of the loading phase) might be needed.