Am 18.07.2014 12:14, schrieb Armbruster Joachim (BEG/EMS1): > Hello, > > We split a monolithic repository into ~50 submodules. The stored data > has the same size. In the 1:1 comparison to the monolithic > repository, the submodule handling is very slow. Under Linux > everything remains fast, but windows is slow. > > So, why is git getting slow when it has to deal with a lot of > submodules? I read something about the lack of the underlying cygwin > to handle NTFS in a efficient way. Is this the root cause, or are > there other causes also? > Hi, I assume you are using the latetst git from https://msysgit.github.io on windows. I would guess that submodules on windows are slow because git-submodules.sh is a shell script, and bash on windows is not really that fast. There has been some (albeit older) discussion on the msysgit mailinglist, see [1]. You can play around with core.fscache [2] maybe that helps. Thomas [1]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/msysgit/AuPA4EbwchU/N42tsb6GousJ [2]: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases/tag/Git-1.8.5.2-preview20131230 -- 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