Sourcetree is really slow on my Mac

[Frances Morales]

Sourcetree has all of a sudden gotten really slow? It is slow to start up, and staging file and other actions like that results in a busy spinner that lasts for 30 to 90 seconds. How do I begin to troubleshoot this? This is on OSX.

[KieranA · Accepted solution]

Hi Frances,

We get spurious reports of this happening. In some cases it's just SourceTree configuration, and in others it's an unknown. Here's some things to check:

1. Have you got adequate system resources? Hard disk space, main memory etc.
2. Have you got many repositories in your bookmarks or open?
3. Are you using embedded or system Git/Mercurial? If system, what version(s)?
4. Have you got many untracked files in a repository/repositories?
5. What filters are you using in your SourceTree views? i.e. 'Show Untracked'
6. Where are your repositories located? Locally on your hard disk or on a network drive?

That should get us started for now. The feedback on these will help us further determine the problem.

Thanks very much in advance!

[Toland Hon]

It turns out because I had 30 or so stashes, Sourcetree was running extremely slow. Once I cleared my stash, everything was spiffy again.

[Tim Osborn]

Hi, I've noticed a slow-down recently, too... Not sure if its repo specific, but anecdotally, it seems that ST has been slower in the last few weeks(?) than it has been this past year.

This thread looks more recent than the more active thread, so I'll post here..

My issue may be that I'm tracking my Vendor directory in a Laravel4 / Composer project (which is not recommended). I've just untracked and ignored the /vendor directory, so I'll see if that helps...

...but initial feedback is that now my /Vendor directory does not display with any filters, not All, untracked, or Ignored.. that'd be a separate ticket...

The ignored files show using the command

git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard

(via)

Cheers, Tim

My system:

1. OSX 10.8.5, 16gb RAM, 75gb free on 500gb SSD,
2. Have you got many repositories in your bookmarks or open? Only 1 at a time
3. Using embedded Git: 1.7.11.1, SourceTree 1.7.3
4. Have you got many untracked files in a repository/repositories? None
5. What filters? Usually Pending, 3 line preview
6. Where are your repositories located? Locally

[Frances Morales]

I had a bunch of untracked files. Once I resolved that issue things speeded right up.

thanks for the help