I have a git repository with 25k commits in it and 7k+ files.
Under Windows 11 using WSL, I noticed that git operations were significantly slower compared to running them natively on Windows.
I have a script that I use to synchronize many branches that was taking forever to execute, but should have been relatively fast.
It also had trouble with line endings which caused issues when merging branches but reminded me of a setting I used to configure in my
~/.gitconfig a very long time ago.
Given that git configuration under Windows and WSL are separate, I had to update the ~/.gitconfig file in my Linux environment with the following.
[core]
autocrlf = trueThis immediately fixed my problem and git was fast again.