Feature: fast commits for large repositories

[benjiwolff]

I am currently working exclusively with a large codebase. The main issue is that git status on the entire repo takes around 2 seconds which makes staging and committing super tedious and frustrating.

This implementation removes 2 git status calls before the commit message editor is shown.

The solution is not quite as pretty, so I added a configuration option.

[CKolkey]

I think there might be ways to accomplish what you are trying to do without needing to modify much. Do you mind trying my suggestions and letting me know if they work for your use case?

[CKolkey]

We could also modify the git.status.anything_staged() implementation to check git.repo.state.staged.items[1] ~= nil if "fast" is set to true. Then we don't need to skip this check, but instead just rely on the repo state data already in memory.

[CKolkey]

We could also put not allow_empty(popup) before git.status.anything_changed(), so you could short-circuit the conditional by enabling "--allow-empty".

[CKolkey]

Have you tried just adding an option for -m to the commit popup?
You could do popup:option("m", "message", "", "Commit message", { key_prefix = "-" }) and that also just bypasses the editor.

neogit/doc/neogit.txt

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	Customizing Popups *neogit_custom_popups*
	You can customize existing popups via the Neogit config.
	Below is an example of adding a custom switch, but you can use any function
	from the builder API.
	>lua
	require("neogit").setup({
	builders = {
	NeogitPushPopup = function(builder)
	builder:switch('m', 'merge_request.create', 'Create merge request', { cli_prefix = '-o ', persisted = false })
	end,
	},
	})
	Keep in mind that builder hooks are executed at the end of the popup
	builder, so any switches or options added will be placed at the end.