Re: strange git delays

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

James Utter schrieb:
> 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.

...

> 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

What does

  strace -c git commit --message "initial commit"

report? 'strace -tt' or 'strace -T'?

-- Hannes