The author doesn't mention whether he is using cygwin git, or msys git. msys is faster. But even with msys, UAC virtualization is a common cause of slowness

The author doesn't mention whether he is using cygwin git, or msys git. msys is faster. But even with msys, UAC virtualization is a common cause of slowness with git: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835775/msysgit-bash-is-horrendously-slow-in-windows-7 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835775/msysgit-bash-is-h... More details here: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=320 http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=320