Hi Mike, On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Mike Hommey wrote: > Recently, I've noticed that whenever the auto-gc message shows up about > being spawned in the background, it still takes a while for git to > return to the shell. > > I've finally looked at what it was stuck on, and it's > `git reflog expire --all` taking more than 30s. I guess the question is > whether there's a reason this shouldn't run in the background? Another > is whether there's something that makes this slower than it should be. Thanks for tracking this down. I hit this problem yesterday and was too busy with other things to dig into it. Thank you! Dscho