Sourcetree + minified files = SO SLOW

[Sean Hill]

I've narrowed down the issue. If you have uncommited compressed / min files sourcetree bogs down so much. It just spins and spins. It took me about 10 minutes today to commit two files. THAT'S HORRIBLE! I believe it's an issue with whatever diff tool Sourcetree is using. Please fix this, I can't do anything with Sourcetree now.

[Seth · Accepted solution]

Try marking your minified CSS to not be diffed. See #1 here: http://delvarworld.github.io/blog/2013/08/10/dealing-with-compiled-files-in-git/

[ppittle]

Link is dead

[Ronald Chanou]

I had this issue, and my solution was to mark the relevant file types as binary in the attributes file:

1. If it doesn't exist, create a .gitattributes file in the root of your project.
2. Add a line like "*.min.js binary" (without quotes)...change it to match whatever files you don't want to diff.

[KieranA]

The problem is that Git is resource intensive when dealing with diffs like that and also takes a long time to respond. The Git process maxes out causing some general slowness.

The diff SourceTree uses is Git. We call Git and get diff output from it.

Cheers

[Sean Hill]

What do you recommend me doing then? I'd really like to continue to use SourceTree, but right now it's just not performing quick enough after this recent update.