Re: git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why?

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Mar 27, 2013, 17:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20130327172216.GO2286@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <CAFT1WNyyXbCOQWMt8nYife7Tix_mJzDQrj5e+N=GKbDR8OyYzQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:39:31AM -0500, Jim Kinsman wrote:

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> git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Here are some stats:
> git ls-files | wc -l
> 27330
> 
> git ls-files -o | wc -l
> 4
> 
> $ git diff --name-only | xargs du -chs
> 68K     update_import_contacts.php
> 68K     total
> 
> What can I do??? This is so slow it is unbearable.
> By the way i've done git gc several times and nothing changed.

Can you run these commands under "time" so that we can see that it's definitely the "git ls-files" taking 30 seconds and not something in $PS1?