From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:25:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Inexplicably deteriorating performance of Git repositories on Windows
Message-ID: <32148197.47150.1290543936407.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimky3Ojc5w3PcCoJOs=NMfMpgUWUDcx+ry6h1dF@mail.gmail.com>

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dun Peal" <dunpealer@gmail.com>
> To: "Wilbert van Dolleweerd" <wilbert@arentheym.com>
> Cc: "Git ML" <git@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 2:59:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Inexplicably deteriorating performance of Git repositories on Windows
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Wilbert van Dolleweerd
> <wilbert@arentheym.com> wrote:
> > How big is your repository? We're using some fairly big repositories
> > over here but I haven't seen this behavior with the latest version
> > of msysgit.
> 
> The working copy totals about 4GB. The .git directory, tightly packed,
> is 1GB.

We're working with about a 1.5GB repository, and while I haven't seen an specific msysgit slow downs, I did run into build issues due to Windows anti-virus programs (on-access scans, new files scans, etc).  I had to add my development directory to the anti-virus exception list to speed things back up.

That being said, I do most of my development on Mac and Linux, and msysgit is noticeably slower across the board for me...

Thanks,
Stephen