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It's surprising to me if so. IntelliJ's git UI is more than fast enough, and it's written in Java and embedded in the IDE. An external git UI shouldn't have any issues.


IntelliJ is only performant due to its indices of pretty much everything. That is its true magic.

In contrast, the Git CLI and most if not all other UIs have zero sorts of caching and have to start from scratch for everything.


That seems like a problem that could and should be solved.


It's not a bug, but a feature. No cache is by design.


There's nothing stopping Git from storing its state in an sqlite db.


IntelliJ has, imho, the most comprehensive & visual diff management UI. That thing alone discards any competitor [once again, imho].




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