Dear Git users,
A team here at Intland Software recently looked into EGit performance optimization opportunities, and managed to achieve some impressive results. You might be interested to get our results before the next official EGit version gets released.
In our optimized plugin version, the time required to synchronize a medium sized repo dropped from 10 minutes to 15 seconds. (It is 40 times faster now on that particular repository.) The Eclipse CDT team reported similar results: their synchronization time dropped from 32 minutes to 1.5 minutes (roughly 20 times faster now).
Read here how: http://blogs.intland.com/main/entry/20110120 -- Intland staff