[qdot76367]

Oh, yeah, gecko is not a fair comparison at all for any git utility. Even on my beefy linux box, m-c takes an age to load under magit. Even doing CLI-based interactive rebases takes a while. Yay 300k+ commits.

[weaksauce]

Is there a tool for git that only downloads the last say 1000 or 2000 commits or is a full history tree fundamental to git working correctly?

[yorwba]

It's the --depth option for git clone/fetch: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#git-clone---depthltde...