`sl status` is too slow for shell prompts

Question

`sl status` is too slow for shell prompts

ammario opened this issue a year ago · comments

I'm trying to use sl status in my shell prompt, but the command consistently takes 400ms whereas git status in the same repo takes 70ms.

I'm running it on coder/coder and my fish prompt source is here.

Max Coplan · Answer 1 · Sat Aug 26 2023 08:01:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

agreed. It's better just to read the .sl/ directory directly. This is what we do in our zsh and bash prompt

I'm not familiar with fish, but hopefully you can use scm-prompt.sh as inspiration for your fish prompt.

Not to detract from your point that sl status is slow. We should make it faster.

Note: without eden, git status might be faster than sl status, but note that fast git prompts also avoid calling git. They do similar techniques as Sapling's suggested prompt

Ammar Bandukwala · Answer 2 · Sun Aug 27 2023 06:12:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for sharing.

Unfortunately it seems like you still need sl status to get the dirty state (which is very important to me), so the .sl/ tricks only shaves ~100ms (30%) off.