git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why?

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.

On 03/27/2013 05:39 PM, Jim Kinsman wrote:

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.

I'm guessing it's the disk that's so slow. I accidentally put a git
repo on a network-mounted drive once. With 20ms round-trip time to
the server, git operations took forever.

Could you try it on a disk you know is local? Preferrably a solid
state drive. If it's still slow there, we know for sure something's
broken inside git. If switching media causes git to become fast,
you'll know it's a hardware problem.

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On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:39:31 -0500
Jim Kinsman [off-list ref] wrote:

git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Here are some stats:

[...]

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 could try some voodoo [1] or experimental caching features [2].

1. http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/browse_thread/thread/02e3c0e046f07215
2. http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/browse_thread/thread/7cbfe3ca452650d1/93ce48e3875f7416

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:39:31AM -0500, Jim Kinsman wrote:

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.

Can you run these commands under "time" so that we can see that it's
definitely the "git ls-files" taking 30 seconds and not something in
$PS1?

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Jim Kinsman [off-list ref] wrote:

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)
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