Ways to improve git status performance

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To be more precise, git depends on the efficiency of the lstat(2) system call, so tweaking your client’s “attribute cache timeout” might do the trick.

The manual for git-update-index — essentially a manual mode for git-status — describes what you can do to alleviate this, by using the --assume-unchanged flag to suppress its normal behavior and manually update the paths that you have changed. You might even program your editor to unset this flag every time you save a file.

The alternative, as you suggest, is to reduce the size of your checkout (the size of the packfiles doesn’t really come into play here). The options are a sparse checkout, submodules, or Google’s repo tool.

(There’s a mailing list thread about using Git with NFS, but it doesn’t answer many questions.)

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