Sourcetree 4.2.10 on macOS is slow at opening some repositories

[Martin Wickett]

After updating to Sourcetree 4.2.10 (269) for macOS opening some repositories is quite slow. Reverting back to 4.2.9 makes them open quickly again.

Looking a the debug task monitor the problem seems to be related to the 'list repo config files' step that runs a script called 'list-repo-config-files.sh' (this appears to be new in version 4.2.10).

If the repository has lots of directories then this script is quite slow.

I believe it might be missing a '-maxdepth 0' in the find command like this:

find "$1" -type d -maxdepth 0 | while read -r dir; do

which would make it only search for a ./git/config or /config file at the root of the passed in directory (rather than recursively in in all directories).

[Jonathan]

Same for me as well. I downgraded to 4.2.9 from https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/download-archives and that fixed the issue.

[William Lee]

This was a lifesaver. I tried pruning branches (which didn't help), but this was the ticket!

[Mark Leusink]

Same here. Downgrading to 4.2.9 solved it for me as well. Thanks for the tip!