From: Jim Kinsman Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:39:31 GMT Subject: git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why? Message-ID: 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.