I recently started using Zsh and it's awesome. Unfortunately, for the project I consider my "main" project, everything is slow. What I mean is that every time I run a command - ls, for example - there's about a five-second delay between the time the command is executed and the time I can use the terminal again.
What could be different about this one repo that makes Zsh so slow? I assume it's a Zsh-specific thing because there was no problem before I started using Zsh. I tried doing a git clean but it didn't make any noticeable difference.
I'm on Mac OS X if that matters.
Update: Turns out this line of my .zshenv is what was making it slow:
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function
If I comment that line, it goes from taking about 3 seconds to taking about 1 second. Unfortunately, I need that line, since many of my projects use RVM. I don't know what to do now.
Update 2: this seems to be specifically an oh-my-zsh thing. If I don't load ~/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh, I don't have a problem.
You can add this to your git config and zsh won't check the status anymore
git config --add oh-my-zsh.hide-status 1
git config --add oh-my-zsh.hide-dirty 1
There are two central git functions in in lib/git.zsh:
git_prompt_info()parse_git_dirty()Each Method has a git config switch to disable it:
oh-my-zsh.hide-statusoh-my-zsh.hide-dirtySome themes create their own git queries and sometimes ignore these flags.