From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: Jim Kinsman <jakinsman@gmail.com>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why?
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:04:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130327190425.GA26380@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130327184657.GP2286@serenity.lan>
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 06:46:57PM +0000, John Keeping wrote:
> I think the simple reality is that Git was written with the assumption
> that stat is cheap and that isn't really the case on Windows, where the
> filesystem cache doesn't seem to do that well with this.
Yes, I think that's pretty much the case (though most of my
Git-on-Windows experience is from cygwin long ago, where the stat
performance was truly horrendous). Have you tried setting
core.preloadindex, which should run the stats in parallel?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-27 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-27 16:39 git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why? Jim Kinsman
2013-03-27 16:44 ` Andreas Ericsson
2013-03-27 17:02 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2013-03-27 17:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-03-27 18:15 ` Jim Kinsman
2013-03-27 18:46 ` John Keeping
2013-03-27 19:04 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-03-27 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-27 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-27 20:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-27 17:22 ` John Keeping
2013-03-28 1:19 ` Duy Nguyen
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