git bash auto complete slow on windows 7 x64

Question

I have two machines where git bash auto complete is agonizingly slow. When I hit tab, it can take 8 to 10 seconds for the filename to be completed. This only seems to happen

Answer 1

I was still having an issue with slow autocomplete for git commands only, using version 1.9.5. Autocompleting at the root level could take 8 seconds, though it was faster at lower levels with fewer files.

I finally fixed the issue with information found here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Diagnosing-why-Git-is-so-slow

By setting git config core.fscache true for my repository, the autocomplete runs faster for many commands, like add and diff, though not all, such as rm. I hope that helps.