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Commits take a very long time to complete

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

Commits take a very long time to complete compared to using CLI.

I looked at the logs to understand what’s happening after committing via the UI, and here is what I see:

2021-07-23T17:20:57.980Z - info: [ui] [AppStore] loading 16 repositories from store
2021-07-23T17:20:58.174Z - info: [ui] launching: 2.8.1-linux1 (Linux 5.11.0-7620-generic)
2021-07-23T17:20:58.174Z - info: [ui] execPath: '/usr/lib/github-desktop/github-desktop'
2021-07-23T17:21:38.762Z - info: [ui] Executing updateIndex: git update-index --add --remove --replace -z --stdin (took 35.509s)
2021-07-23T17:21:38.935Z - info: [ui] [Timing] Action 'create commit' for 'stargazer' took 35.715s

Something called updateIndex took 35 seconds to complete before the app even attempted to commit.

Version & OS

Version 2.8.1-linux1

OS: Pop_OS! 21.04

Linux carbon 5.11.0-7620-generic #21~1624379747~21.04~3abeff8-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 23 02:34:03 UTC  x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Go to ‘main UI’
Click on ‘Commit’ (can even be a single, small file)

Though I expect that there is something at play that only affects certain setups or projects.

Expected behavior

A commit not taking longer than on the CLI.

Actual behavior

A commit taking 35 seconds instead of at most a second on the CLI.

Logs

See description.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Mrlinkwiicommented, Jul 25, 2021

👋 linux isn’t offically supported ( as per https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/1525#issuecomment-783584346 ) but theirs a linux fork you can use https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/ to post said issue their if its still occuring also the version your using is old id recommend updating to the latest version also

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