Re: Emacs with git slow?

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

S Boucher <stbya@yahoo.com> writes:

> >  finding and saving files (C-xC-f and C-xC-s) that are under git control is 
> > slow 
> > on my system.
> >
> > It's of the order of a second, which is  terrible.
> >
> > Anyone noticed this?
> 
> Me not.
> 
> > I see  this slow response time even when I start emacs -nw -q.
> >
> > Things  are snappy with files not under git.
> >
> > I haven't dug in the emacs  git code yet, and am hoping I won't have to :-)
> 
> Emacs  version?  OS? Machine specs? Git version? Are your  files on a NFS 
> volume?
>
> System 1:
> Core2 Duo 6400@2.13GHz
> 4G ram
> Ubuntu 10.10 64bit
> kernel 2.6.35-27-generic
> emacs 23.2
> git 1.7.1
> local ext3 filesystems
>
> System 2 (less precise because I'm not on that system right now):
> quad core intel
> 8G ram
> Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
> local ext4 filesystem
> emacs 23.2
> git ? (version included with 10.04)

I would understand a bit of a lag if you were running Windows on a
netbook, but running git on those machines with GNU/Linux is practically
instantaneous.

Can you replicate the problem with emacs -Q ? How fast `git status'
executes from the directories where one of those files are?