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Re: Inexplicably deteriorating performance of Git repositories on Windows

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Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 23, 2010, 21:07 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.

Yeah, the performance numbers I mentioned are *after* excluding our AV software from that directory.

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

Yup, as mentioned, even under the best case Windows scenario (freshly cloned repo) I'm still seeing `git status` latencies that are x2-3 times those of Linux machines.

I don't hope to get Windows' git to be as fast as on Linux; at this point, just making it fast enough to be usable would be an achievement: I can't tell developers who just switched from a fast SVN setup to wait for 15s for `git status`, an operation they perform dozens of times per day (other operations, like stash, also take involve long, unworkable waits).

.D
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  2. Wilbert van DolleweerdNov 23, 2010
  3. Dun PealNov 23, 2010
  4. Wilbert van DolleweerdNov 23, 2010
  5. Stephen BashNov 23, 2010
  6. Dun PealNov 23, 2010
  7. Tay Ray ChuanNov 24, 2010
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