Git plugin cannot be disabled and slows down prompt making it unusable

[lucian303]

The prompt is very, very, very slow and it still shows the git branch even after removing all plugins in the plugin config and rm -rf ing the .oh-my-zsh/plugins dir. What does one have to do to get rid of this and make this to work again short of removing the entire .oh-my-zsh folder? Why is this imposed in such a way that it cannot be stopped?

This happens after a fresh install, w/ a fresh config, with or without 'git' in the plugins line. Surely this can't be intended behavior?

It also happens for prompts that show the git branch but not at least for xiong-chiamiov or others (I assume that don't).

To Reproduce
cd to a big git repo

Expected behavior
It shouldn't run any git stuff. It shouldn't display the git branch name. It shouldn't do any of this shit when it's disabled.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS / Distro: Debian 4.9.0
• Latest ohmyzsh update?: yes
• ZSH Version: 5.7.1
• Terminal emulator: iTerm2

[mcornella]

That is the git_prompt_info / git_prompt_status / parse_git_dirty functions. You can disable them per repository with one of these run inside the git repository:

git config oh-my-zsh.hide-info 1   # git_prompt_info
git config oh-my-zsh.hide-status 1 # git_prompt_status
git config oh-my-zsh.hide-dirty 1  # parse_git_dirty

You can also disable them entirely by either (1) redefining the function with an empty body in your zshrc file (after OMZ is sourced), or (2) running the commands above with a --global flag.

git_prompt_info(){} # this overwrites the git_prompt_info so it does nothing

git config --global oh-my-zsh.hide-info 1   # git_prompt_info
git config --global oh-my-zsh.hide-status 1 # git_prompt_status
git config --global oh-my-zsh.hide-dirty 1  # parse_git_dirty

In our experience git_prompt_status and parse_git_dirty are the ones that cause performance issues, so you can disable them and keep the git_prompt_info function to have branch info with none of the performance drawbacks.

[imxys]

Having the same issue, I find the source code by filtering git_prompt_info:

plugins/gitfast/gitfast.plugin.zsh
8:function git_prompt_info() {

lib/git.zsh
12:function git_prompt_info() {

Does the gitfast plugin overwrite the origin git_prompt_info and ignore oh-my-zsh.hide-info?

[imxys]

Oh sorry I made a mistake, my zsh runs git through powerlevel10k theme...