[molteanu]

I haven't been able to use magit. I've tried and tried, but it's too slow for me. It literaly takes 30 seconds just to magit-status the project on a windows machine. So I'm using vc and git-gutter+ for this job. You can see the changes, stage them, view the log, annotate your file (what commit modified each line), commit, ammend, etc.

[aerique]

I've never tried it on Windows so that might be the issue. Windows is still somewhat a second-class citizen wrt Emacs and Git. Not as bad as is the past and getting better every day but still noticably worse than on a Unix.

I've aliased magit-status in my shell and it spawns a new Emacs instance (no demon) and magit in a few seconds.

[josteink]

No reason to downvote parent. Both Git and Emacs (especially use of external processes) are slower on Windows.

Combined it’s quite noticeable.

I still use Magit though, because it’s clearly the best git-porcelain around.