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>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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