Those times look too long for the number of files. Here's my time: $ time git status On branch master Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged, an

Those times look too long for the number of files. Here's my time: $ time git status On branch master Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged, and have 1 and 115 different commits each, respectively. (use "git pull" to merge the remote branch into yours) real 0m0.517s user 0m0.240s sys 0m0.472s $ git ls-files | wc -l 130685 This is on Ubuntu Linux, no special additions done to git. I wonder why the author's experience is so different.