Git Bash is extremely slow on Windows 7 x64

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You can significantly speed up Git on Windows by running three commands to set some config options:

git config --global core.preloadindex true
git config --global core.fscache true
git config --global gc.auto 256

Notes:

  • core.preloadindex does filesystem operations in parallel to hide latency (update: enabled by default in Git 2.1)

  • core.fscache fixes UAC issues so you don’t need to run Git as administrator (update: enabled by default in Git for Windows 2.8)

  • gc.auto minimizes the number of files in .git/

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