Having one large, untracked file pegs single CPU core to ~100%

[savchenko]

Describe the bug
Leaving stray ~700mb file in a repo results in gitui taking unreasonable amount of CPU time.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Add random (very) large file to the git root.
2. Open gitui

Expected behavior
The file is ignored unless user explicitly adds it to the repository.

Screenshots
N/A

Context (please complete the following information):

• OS/Distro + Version: Debian 13
• GitUI Version: gitui 0.27.0 2025-01-14 (99f6967)
• Rust version: rustc 1.86.0 (05f9846f8 2025-03-31)

Additional context
Removing the file resolves the issue in its entirety.

[extrawurst]

Oh boy that sounds like an upstream issue with libgit2 and their slow status functions - @cruessler when can we migrate the status tab to gitoxide? 😉

[cruessler]

Well, from what I can tell, gitoxide’s status API already has everything we need (I’ve already experimented with it a bit in a small side-project of mine). It’s even being integrated into cargo package as we speak (rust-lang/cargo#15534). To summarize, I’ve just moved it to the front of my oxidize to-do list. 😉