Re: git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why?

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 28, 2013, 01:19 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BgLpTPPzNPo9EQiUQq_s9Lru=ZsS+1B0CmU=5XjcHs-g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Jim Kinsman <jakinsman@gmail.com> wrote:

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> git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Here are some stats:
> git ls-files | wc -l
> 27330
>
> git ls-files -o | wc -l
> 4
>
> $ git diff --name-only | xargs du -chs
> 68K     update_import_contacts.php
> 68K     total
>
> 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 can try "status -uno" to skip showing untracked files (and may be do without -uno before commit so you don't miss files). You may also try core.ignoreStat (but I think it's not very convenient to use)

-- 
Duy