How to tune EGit for large repositories?
egit, jgit
Solution
EGit 3.5.0 will bring huge performance fix for large repositories - without "tuning" anything. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=440722
You can use nightly EGit build update site to get the fix immediately: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-nightly
Problem
The problem: I find EGit great and use it intensively, but it can be incredibly slow. It can get frustrating when it takes several minutes to complete operations that the C version of git (Cgit) does in less than a couple of seconds. All operations are significantly slower than Cgit. For example switching branches will take 10's of seconds compared to near instant. A rebase can take several minutes compared to less than a couple of seconds. Some details: History size: 10114 commits as reported with: `git rev-list HEAD --count` Current Working directory size: 63.7 MB Current .git size: 77.4 MB Largest file size: 4.0 MB OS: Linux - CentOS 5.5 File System: ext3 JVM: Oracle - Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_21-b11) EGit and JGit version: 3.0.0.201306101825-r I was previously running 2.3 but did not notice any change in performance after upgrading. Could suitable window cache settings help: I found the following quote in JGit's bugzilla here: ...EGit had to expose UI to allow users to configure it when working on bigger repositories. Which sounds like it fits my case. So I looked around in eclipse and under `Window -> Preferences -> Team -> Git` found these Git Window Cache settings: But how do I use them? What do the different controls actually do? Has anyone had any success in getting EGit to be more responsive by using them?