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This gist has observations and maybe some solutions for Git for Windows being extremely slow.
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Problem

Git for Windows slows down a lot after network change or after use of an VPN. For example ls or git status commands took over a minute to complete!

Observations

During this slow pace if network is turned off, then git-bash works normally.

Git for Windows uses __git_ps1 internally for getting some info and that alone takes over a minute!

$ time __git_ps1
real    1m11.238s
user    0m0.031s
sys     0m0.216s

Resources

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42888024/git-bash-mintty-is-extremely-slow-on-windows-10-os

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