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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: RFH: spawning pager takes long time when when unconnected from
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:57:47 +0100
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Eric Raible schrieb:
> I've got a weird one which I haven't been able to figure out.
> The problem is that git sometimes takes a long time (~5-10 seconds)
> before producing output when it needs to internally spawn a pager.
> 
> This only occurs when I'm not plugged in to a network.
> When I'm plugged in everything operates at the normal speed.
> 
> This would be slow: git diff some-branch
> This would be fast: git diff some-branch | less
> 
> Unsetting core.pager (IOW setting core.pager="") is also fast.

Do you have a directory in your PATH that points to a disconnected network
drive? Do you use the default pager settings, or did you customize the pager?

-- Hannes