From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:04:25 GMT
Subject: Re: git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why?
Message-ID: <20130327190425.GA26380@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130327184657.GP2286@serenity.lan>

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 06:46:57PM +0000, John Keeping wrote:

> I think the simple reality is that Git was written with the assumption
> that stat is cheap and that isn't really the case on Windows, where the
> filesystem cache doesn't seem to do that well with this.

Yes, I think that's pretty much the case (though most of my
Git-on-Windows experience is from cygwin long ago, where the stat
performance was truly horrendous). Have you tried setting
core.preloadindex, which should run the stats in parallel?

-Peff