From: Ferry Huberts Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:49:39 GMT Subject: Re: Inexplicably deteriorating performance of Git repositories on Windows Message-ID: <4CEC36F3.5020908@hupie.com> In-Reply-To: Are your users using the 'show my status in the prompt' feature? If so, then disable all but showing the current branch, it makes a whole lot of difference :-) On 11/23/2010 08:08 PM, Dun Peal wrote: > Hey, > > We have a bunch of Windows users, unfortunately, and they're using the > latest msysGit release (Git-1.7.3.1-preview20101002). > > An interesting issue we've noticed is that the Time To Complete of > their common operations start deteriorating inexplicably, and > severely, some time after the clone. > > For instance, immediately after a clone, `git status` takes about > 5-6s. Which is slow compared to Linux (consistent 1-2s), but still > usable (it's a BIG repo). > > However, after a reboot (of all things), `git status` latency > skyrockets to 14-15s, making the repo unusable. > > Any idea what's going on? We just recently switched from SVN, and > those users are getting really frustrated. BTW, the only real > alternative I'm aware of, Cygwin's git, is even slower. > > Thanks, D > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html grtz -- Ferry Huberts