The only anti-virus I have installed is Microsoft Security Essentials I turned off and it was still the same: $ cat /usr/bin/gitstatus start_time=`date +%s` git status && echo run time is $(expr `date +%s` - $start_time) s $ gitstatus # On branch test # Changes not staged for commit: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) # # modified: orgoptions.php # modified: update_import_contacts.php # no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") run time is 10 s On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jim Kinsman <jakinsman@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. > > Any anti-virus installed? They can interfer badly with disk-intensive > tasks ... > > -- > Matthieu Moy > http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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