From: Johannes Sixt Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:57:47 GMT Subject: Re: RFH: spawning pager takes long time when when unconnected from network Message-ID: <4991337B.2010102@viscovery.net> In-Reply-To: Eric Raible schrieb: > I've got a weird one which I haven't been able to figure out. > The problem is that git sometimes takes a long time (~5-10 seconds) > before producing output when it needs to internally spawn a pager. > > This only occurs when I'm not plugged in to a network. > When I'm plugged in everything operates at the normal speed. > > This would be slow: git diff some-branch > This would be fast: git diff some-branch | less > > Unsetting core.pager (IOW setting core.pager="") is also fast. Do you have a directory in your PATH that points to a disconnected network drive? Do you use the default pager settings, or did you customize the pager? -- Hannes