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SmartGit: Log window is very slow

I'm using SmartGit under Windows 7 to work with a huge GIT repository (~400 branches, ~12000 tags, ~25000 commits) and opening Log window on it takes about 15 seconds. When it is opened, toggling visibility of a branch also takes several seconds. Is there something I can do to speed up the Log windows responsiveness?

I've tried everything listed in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25199391/261217, nothing helped. smartgit.exe consumes only around 300Mb of RAM.

I did the following actions:

  1. Open SmartGit (repo is selected by default)
  2. Open Log window
  3. Close Log window
  4. Close SmartGit

System info: SmartGit v6.5.2, Windows 7 x64, Intel Core i7-3770, 16Gb RAM

Solution

  • The problem was caused by too may tags in the repository. It is workarounded by disabling some tags from being loaded by SmartGit. For this, do the following:

    1. Set system property smartgit.branch.tagExcludeRegEx to a regular expression of tags that should be disabled (available since v6.5.3, build #4165). See documentation on setting system properties. You can use negative lookaround to disable all except few tags.
    2. Run git pack-refs --all to optimize access to loose tags.