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Git is noticeably slow on Windows. Git is built to run on top of Unix commands, which work great on Linux and Mac. For Windows, the commands have to be installe
by WolfeReader 7mo ago
Git is noticeably slow on Windows. Git is built to run on top of Unix commands, which work great on Linux and Mac. For Windows, the commands have to be installed separately, and there's a performance penalty for each call. Individual Git commands are usually fine, but anything that calls several steps in sequence will visibly drag.
(WSL gets around this entirely.)
- retired 7mo agoI hardly see developers with Windows anymore, I guess this is one of the many reasons.
- WolfeReader 7mo agoI have to use Windows for work. With WSL, it's actually perfectly fine! Which is really more of an endorsement of Linux than Windows.
- retired 7mo agoI last developed on Windows in the time where I had to fiddle with Git Bash, Cygwin and manually setting my PATH. It was not a fun time.
- zokier 7mo agoafaik far bigger factor is that windows file io is just generally much slower than linux. both of these are further exacerbated by av solutions which are ubiquitous in windows. that is why ms introduced "dev drive" in windows few years back which in their own benchmarks showed biggest gain specifically with git: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/06/01/dev-drive-performance-security-and-control-for-developers/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/06/01/dev-dr...