From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:02:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why?
Message-ID: <20130327210207.be75b77c5cddd1e5c10764e0@domain007.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFT1WNyyXbCOQWMt8nYife7Tix_mJzDQrj5e+N=GKbDR8OyYzQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:39:31 -0500
Jim Kinsman <jakinsman@gmail.com> wrote:

> git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Here are some stats:
[...]
> What can I do??? This is so slow it is unbearable.
> By the way i've done git gc several times and nothing changed.

You could try some voodoo [1] or experimental caching features [2].

1. http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/browse_thread/thread/02e3c0e046f07215
2. http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/browse_thread/thread/7cbfe3ca452650d1/93ce48e3875f7416