Project panel works with large delays in large projects

[caoyang2002]

Describe the bug / provide steps to reproduce it

I create a file, and all the content in the right sidebar disappears. I have to reopen Zed to restore the display.

Zed Version and System Specs

Darwin MacBookPro.lan 24.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.2.0: Fri Dec 6 18:40:14 PST 2024; root:xnu-11215.61.5~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

Zed 0.168.2 – /Applications/Zed.app

[SomeoneToIgnore]

Can you paste screenshot of what's been in the right sidebar before creating the file?

[caoyang2002]

Now it can't display anymore. I've already restarted the computer, but it still doesn't show. As a demonstration, I can only open it in VS Code.

vscode

zed

[SomeoneToIgnore]

Sorry, it's very hard for me to understand what is a "right sidebar" on VSCode too — there, I see a left dock open, and the editor in the center (with the minimap).
Nothing on the right side of VSCode is present too?

[caoyang2002]

Sorry, I described it wrong. It's the left side, the area that displays the file directory.

After using zed . to open this project and waiting for a long time, the file directory finally appeared. Before that, it couldn’t display.

but, it cannot open files. I tried to open the README, but it was not displayed in the window.

[SomeoneToIgnore]

Finally, it starts to make sense.

One last question: is it a lot of files in the project?

I suspect that Zed's project panel is scanning the entire project at once before showing anything, as does it so slow that nothing appears there for a while.

[caoyang2002]

Yes，more than 60,000 files.

I just closed this project and tried to reopen it. It's been ten minutes now, and the project panel is still empty.

[JosephTLyons]

CC - @osiewicz (AKA, the performance goat).

[osiewicz]

This can be observed on rust-lang/rust as well; it has to do with this call:

zed/crates/worktree/src/worktree.rs

Line 5184 in 813bbec

.status(&[git::WORK_DIRECTORY_REPO_PATH.clone()])

I'm not sure what we can do about it at the moment, sans maybe decoupiling git scan from the main background scan.
/cc @cole-miller

[SomeoneToIgnore]

#24307 had been merged and I see much faster project panel interactions in chromium repo.
Git status updates are still painfully slow, but at least asynchronous now.

If you can build from source and give it a try, or wait until next Preview version to release with it.

[SomeoneToIgnore]

After #24722 I am not able to reproduce this, so closing optimistically.
Please comment or create another issue if things in large projects continue to be delayed.