On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 06:46:57PM +0000, John Keeping wrote: > I think the simple reality is that Git was written with the assumption > that stat is cheap and that isn't really the case on Windows, where the > filesystem cache doesn't seem to do that well with this. Yes, I think that's pretty much the case (though most of my Git-on-Windows experience is from cygwin long ago, where the stat performance was truly horrendous). Have you tried setting core.preloadindex, which should run the stats in parallel? -Peff -- 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