`sl status` is too slow for shell prompts

[ammario]

I'm trying to use sl status in my shell prompt, but the command consistently takes 400ms whereas git status in the same repo takes 70ms.

I'm running it on coder/coder and my fish prompt source is here.

[vegerot]

agreed. It's better just to read the .sl/ directory directly. This is what we do in our zsh and bash prompt

I'm not familiar with fish, but hopefully you can use scm-prompt.sh as inspiration for your fish prompt.

Not to detract from your point that sl status is slow. We should make it faster.

Note: without eden, git status might be faster than sl status, but note that fast git prompts also avoid calling git. They do similar techniques as Sapling's suggested prompt

[ammario]

Thanks for sharing.

Unfortunately it seems like you still need sl status to get the dirty state (which is very important to me), so the .sl/ tricks only shaves ~100ms (30%) off.