git stash is slow on windows

Question

On my windows machine git stash has about 3.5 seconds overhead on each invocation, which adds about 7 seconds to my git commit hook.

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Answer 1

git-stash is a script, not a command compiled in the git.exe binary.

On linux : I can find git-stash at /usr/lib/git-core/git-stash - I will let you look for the correct path on windows ...

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This script uses #!/bin/sh to run, I don't know what shell implementation is used when you run this on windows.

You can try to run it with another compatible shell (here: bash) :

# the git-core/ dir needs to be in the PATH,
# obviously  you will need to provide the correct path for your git-core dir

$ PATH=/usr/lib/git-core:$PATH bash /usr/lib/git-core/git-stash

You can also turn the -x flag, which will print a trace of all commands executed, and visually check if one of the sub commands seems to be the hanger :

$ PATH=/usr/lib/git-core:$PATH bash -x /usr/lib/git-core/git-stash