Hi Mark, Ravalika,

We need to distinguish between URL style network connections (push, pull, 
fetch, clone) and mapped drive local area network LAN style network connections.

Mark is right that git status does not do any URL network style checks. 
However, depending on Ravalika's local setup (which may be corporate), it is 
quite possible for the local drive that the repository is held on to actually 
be across the LAN - I often have that at my work where there are lots of 
project shares, and one is expected to hold project data (even personal 
workings) on those project drives. 

Obviously(?) the network is then setup to respond quickly most of the time, 
though occassional I see slow downs if others are saturating a (my) network 
switch with some large file transfer, such that my file transfer goes slowly. 
Some corporate setups are not as reponsive...

The other aspect is the number of files checked out that need to be stat'd and 
the total size of the worktree. There are philiosophical differences between 
Linux and Windows regarding what parts of the stat process should trusted 
meaning that Windows is generally slower, so for a large number of files, all 
stored via a network share, a process delay is quite possible.

In addition to Mark's advice, it is worth determining how the repository 
storage is organised with regard to internal vs network share storage. (and OS 
/ Git versions)

Philip
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Waite 
  To: Git for human beings 
  Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 1:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [git-users] How to improve the Git status performance


  Based on the description in the git-status manual page, I don't think that it 
is performing any network operations.  Changing the location of the server 
should not affect the performance of the "git status" command.


  The manual page notes that if you have a repository which includes many 
files, you can improve the performance of "git status" by not reporting 
untracked files ("git status -uno" or "git status --untracked-files=no").  The 
specific quote is


    Because it takes extra work to find untracked files in the filesystem, this 
mode may take some time in a large working tree. Consider enabling untracked 
cache and split index if supported (see git update-index --untracked-cache and 
git update-index --split-index), Otherwise you can use no to have git status 
return more quickly without showing untracked files.


  Other techniques which can improve the performance of "git status" include:
    a.. Use a local file system on an SSD disc drive for the working directory 
rather than a rotating disc
    b.. Use a local file system for the working directory rather than a network 
mounted file system

    c.. Reduce the number of files in the working directory by using a sparse 
checkout to only checkout the files which are relevant to your work
  Mark Waite

  On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 10:36:29 PM UTC-7, Ravalika wrote:
    Thank you 


    I have tried setting server on the same machine still the git status takes 
more time


    real    0m25.969s
    user    0m10.293s
    sys     0m5.270s


    And tried the below flags also
    ignoreStat = true
    fscache = true
    preloadindex = true
    untrackedCache = true


    Still the git status takes more time ?

    On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 1:27:43 PM UTC+5:30, Philip Oakley wrote:
      Git is a DVCS - the first D is the key feature of it's performance. 

      Do have a rethink of the use of a centralised network file server for the 
user repository. The network delays are killing you.

      Step one: Decentralise.
      Step two: Distribute control.
      Step three: fun and profit (and speed!)

      Old habits die hard.. Try and get away from them

      Philip
        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Ravalika 
        To: Git for human beings 
        Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 5:56 AM
        Subject: [git-users] How to improve the Git status performance


        Hi All, 


        We are using git-2.10.2 version for version control.

        It is an centralized server and git status takes too long


        How to improve the performance of git status



        Git repo details:



        Size of the .git folder is 8.9MB
        Number of commits approx 53838  (git rev-list HEAD --count)
        Number of branches -  330  
        Number of files - 63883
        Working tree clone size is 4.3GB


        time git status shows
        real 0m23.673s

        user 0m9.432s
        sys 0m3.793s


        then after 5 mins
        real    0m4.864s
        user    0m1.417s
        sys     0m4.710s


        And I have experimented following ways but no significant change 

        -          -  Setting core.ignorestat to true

        -          -  Git gc &git clean

        -          -  Shallow clone – Reducing number of commits

        -          -  Clone only one branch 

              - Git repacking - git repack -ad && git prune

        -     - Cold/warm cache 



        Could you please let me know, what are the other ways to improve the 
git performance ?



        Thank you,
        Renuka



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