Hi, with current trunk I get the following on an up-to-date Linux tree: markus@x4 linux % time git pull Already up-to-date. git pull 7.84s user 0.26s system 92% cpu 8.743 total git version 1.7.12 is much quicker: markus@x4 linux % time git pull Already up-to-date. git pull 0.10s user 0.02s system 16% cpu 0.740 total perf shows for trunk: 22.11% git-merge libz.so.1.2.7 [.] 0x00000000000073bc 22.03% git libz.so.1.2.7 [.] 0x0000000000007338 14.18% git libz.so.1.2.7 [.] inflate 13.70% git-merge libz.so.1.2.7 [.] inflate 9.18% git git [.] 0x00000000000ea391 8.56% git-merge git-merge [.] 0x00000000000f0598 1.58% git-merge libz.so.1.2.7 [.] adler32 1.52% git libz.so.1.2.7 [.] adler32 0.59% git [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c and for 1.7.12: 39.29% git git [.] 0x00000000000b9fa8 12.16% git libz.so.1.2.7 [.] inflate 8.67% git libz.so.1.2.7 [.] 0x000000000000a18e 8.49% git-merge git-merge [.] 0x00000000000efa15 4.96% git libc-2.16.90.so [.] memcpy@@GLIBC_2.14 2.63% git libc-2.16.90.so [.] _int_malloc 2.61% git-merge [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c 2.32% git [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c 2.04% git [kernel.kallsyms] [k] filemap_fault 1.87% git-merge libc-2.16.90.so [.] memcpy@@GLIBC_2.14 -- Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html