Many thanks for the explanation, and it's now instant. To ~/.gitconfig, I added: [user] email = myemail@xxxxxxxxxxx On 03/11/2008, Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 13ren wrote: > > With the network plugged in, git-commit takes 8 seconds. > > > > When I unplug the network, commit is instant... > > Configure your user.email (and user.name), see man git-config. If the > email is not set, Git tries to figure out your hostname, which > depending on DNS misconfigurations can apparently cause such delays. -- 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