RFH: spawning pager takes long time when when unconnected from network

Hello All -

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.

Tracking this down has been problematic, because I suspect it's got to do with the relative timing of the two processes, and I don't know the code well enough to figure out an effective debugging strategy.

Any ideas or things to try?

Thanks - Eric