Hello, I just started using UE 5.6.1 on Linux, and I noticed that every time I submit a change (Git), even a small one, the editor takes a really long time. Is there anything I can do to speed up this process?
Are you using locks? Locks are really slow on git.
You can also ensure your hard drive is not slowing things down.
git in general is slow. would be good to know what are the actual times you encounter.
Git isn’t “slow" the engine writing 50000 lines for a .uasset that contains less than 50byte of data is the problem. You aren’t getting around that.
Best bet is to not use the engine stuff.
Go with something like githubdesktop if you need a UI.
Check out the repo when you start. Check back in when you are done for the day.
Normally any file you touched gets fully re-written because it’s generally .uassets that the engine packs in binary or hex rather than text files like you do with code, so it takes longer than for a c++ repo where all you submit is line changes and maybe some new files plus removals…
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I’ve not tried Editor versioning plugins, but question … do they allow for management of files outside of the game assets? Like design docs, reference material, art source files, etc.
We have always used Windows desktop versioning interfaces because so many files need to be versioned that are not game assets.