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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Subject: Re: git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why?
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:22:17 +0000
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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?