Git operations in Visual Studio Code are no longer slow (August 2024)

Version 1.93 (August 2024 release, received 2024-09-05) fixed a problem with very slow (minutes instead of seconds) Git operations in Visual Studio Code.

This problem was introduced with a recent release, probably the previous release one month earlier, 1.92 (July 2024).

It may or may not have been a consequence of this:

“Based on user feedback, we have moved the history graph that was enabled last milestone from the Source Control view into a new view called Source Control Graph. This reduces the information overload from the main view and enables you to hide/collapse/move the new view as you see fit. This also lays the foundation for a full-featured history graph.”

Though it is only circumstantial evidence.

I couldn’t find anything about this problem on Stack Overflow. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

At least it affected Edit Overflow, primarily a .NET Core project. The exact nature of the slowdown is not known. All local Git operations were slow: Add to the staging area and committing locally.

Unspecific to be investigated:

“@swordensen (Michael Sorensen): Fixes #218626 PR #219148”

Extra gotcha

After an update, in the first session, Alt + F to open the ‘File’ menu (to exit the application) does not work… (nothing happens). In subsequent sessions, it does work.

This was observed on Linux.