Kirill Bulatov
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Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/35780 Collab schema migration PR: https://github.com/zed-industries/cloud/pull/3422 The corresponding database schema migration has been created in the Cloud repo and applied to the production database. Before, Zed scanned each and every entry in the tree down from the directory it was opened in, except gitignored files and scan exclusions. The approach is unchanged, if Zed detects it was open inside a git repository: e.g. the directory open in Zed contains `.git` directory. For the rest of the projects, 2 optimizations are made: * Limit the depth of file scan traversal. Now, `file_scan_depth` (default `5`) restricts Zed from traversing any directory that has same number or more segments in its file path. Such directories behave similar to gitignored directories: their contents is not available in file finder, project search and project panel, but can be lazily traversed when the directory is expanded (e.g. project panel expands it or a nested file is open by path via terminal, etc.) To indicate that to the users, a status entry is shown firs time the limitation is hit in the project: <img width="858" height="133" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7da6cfbb-98b4-4cc3-bf2a-8902a9597a15" /> * During the scan, any git repositories that are not direct children of the directory open in Zed (depth >= 2), are traversed and indexed normally, but their git metadata is never fetched eagerly. Only when Zed opens a buffer from that repo the git metadata is fetched and applied. All that combined now uses a way more moderate amount of CPU and RAM when opening `~`: <img width="1717" height="368" alt="Screenshot 2026-08-13 at 17 43 53" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ec83e2a9-f7cc-452b-8eb7-af158284ca4e" /> File scan inclusions and exclusions are considered still for such projects. Set `file_scan_depth` to `0` to enable old behavior. The setting is supported in the project settings, so custom values can be set based on the project's structure. --- Release Notes: - Fixed Zed using a lot of memory and CPU in large, non-git-tracked, directory trees
Zed
Welcome to Zed, a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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Zed source code is licensed primarily under GPL-3.0-or-later, with Apache-2.0 components where marked.
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