Re: Git very slow ?

[Kevin D <me@ikke.info>]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 01:30:07AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Hi, please CC me if that is not your usual fashion, because I am not
> subscribed.
> 
> I use git for my build scripts - those are accessed over nfs.  Since
> I started using 2.1 and later (I don't think I used 2.0) commands
> such as 'commit' take a long time before anything happens.  I
> assumed that the newer version meant this would take longer.
> 
> But today^Wyesterday I was bisecting the kernel on a local
> filesystem - even when the number of revisions left to test was in
> the single digits, git bisect took a long time to decide which
> revision should be the next one to test.  The filesystems are ext4.
> Is this sort of delay normal now?
> 
> What really prompted me to ask is that I ran git blame on a script,
> to see when I made a particular change so that I could add that
> information to a ticket, and almost gave up waiting because it felt
> as if it was taking for ever.
> 

What kind of repository are we talking about? How many files, how big?
Git should not have become significantly slower recently.

Also, might there be anti-virus software that slows down file access?