From: Eric Raible <raible+git@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:07:10 GMT
Subject: RFH: spawning pager takes long time when when unconnected from network
Message-ID: <loom.20090210T015515-886@post.gmane.org>

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