strange git delays

[James Utter <james.utter@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Many git operations are running really slowly for me.
For example 'git commit' and 'git branch' are taking 10 seconds to
complete, even on an almost empty repository, and no longer on a 60MB
repository with plenty of history.

There does not appear to be any CPU or disk activity caused by git.

I would appreciate your help in resolving this problem.

Regards,

James Utter


Details of my environment:
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Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP x86_64 (from debian testing) [1]
git-core 1:1.5.4.3-1 (from debian testing) [2]
Core 2 duo, 2Ghz

[1] I have been experiencing this problem across several kernels
[2] possibly over several git versions too (not sure)

Here is a test run on my computer
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james@timesink:~$ mkdir testgit
james@timesink:~$ cd testgit/
james@timesink:~/testgit$ time git init-db
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/

real	0m0.013s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.008s
james@timesink:~/testgit$ echo "hai there" > hello
james@timesink:~/testgit$ time git add .

real	0m0.103s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.004s
james@timesink:~/testgit$ time git commit --message "initial commit"
Created initial commit 4f4b3a3: initial commit
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 hello

real	0m10.008s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.008s
james@timesink:~/testgit$ time git branch new

real	0m10.006s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.004s
james@timesink:~/testgit$ time git branch -d new
Deleted branch new.

real	0m0.005s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.004s
james@timesink:~/testgit$ echo "im in ur git\n slowin ur workflo" >>
hello
james@timesink:~/testgit$ time git commit -a --message "how long"
Created commit 2392de6: how long
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

real	0m10.059s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.008s