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Bug 369718

Summary:	"Show tag sequence" preference is a performance killer
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, robin
Version:	1.3	Keywords:	performance
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Markus Keller

2012-01-25 13:15:49 EST

"Git > History > Show tag sequence" is a performance killer. After enabling that option, I cannot work any more in the History view, since every selection change blocks updating.

Either
- remove that option, or
- put a big WARNING to the preference page, or
- make the implementation faster.

Comment 1 Markus Keller

2013-01-11 06:17:31 EST

Ping.

Comment 2 Robin Stocker

2013-10-21 06:36:49 EDT

How about making it "on-demand"? E.g. with a link in the message field "Show tag sequence", which when clicked, is expanded to the content that is now shown.

(Thinking a bit bigger, maybe we should move away from a pure text-based field there, e.g. the branch list would also benefit from not being just text but instead being a real widget with a context menu and icon. And the diff could also be in a separate area.)