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How did you get magit to not be slow as hell on Windows?

It’s brutally slow on my windows box and lightning quick on my Mac.

Best setup I've found was to run everything within WSL when developing on Windows and exporting emacs display to Mobaxterm's x-server for a proper emacs experience. Everything is extremely fast and I find myself using my Mac less frequently now since WSL is working very well for me.

>How did you get magit to not be slow as hell on Windows?

By using mercurial :-)

Had no idea magit is slow on Windows. Any idea why?

It’s mainly due to the cost of spinning up subproccesses and certain FS operations on Windows. Magit spins up a bunch of git processes for certain operations and can be quite slow due to it. Look into fscache settings for a speedup

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