On 9 Sep 2010, at 11:44, Mark Rogers wrote:
Using a git repository over samba sounds like a whole world of pain, samba doesn't really do file caching, either, so you're hitting a lot of network traffic when you probably don't need to.
To be fair to it, it was only the git status that was slow in the end; when I ran through the diffs merging the changes that was fast enough to be perfectly usable.
Whilst I agree with the methods Brett and Srdjan have suggested, it's possible that running "git fsck" and/or "git gc" on the repository on your dev server might speed it up a bit.