Long time to Commit

Question

When I commit a sizable number of files (200 files) through GitHub for Desktop, it just sits there for a very long time (>10 minutes). It does eventually complete.

Scrolling through the debug log doesn't seem to show anything out of place.

This seems to be a recent development, as the previous Github for Windows did not seem to have this issue.

I'm currently on version The Last Free Monad (3.0.5.2) a0622a5, and my git version is 1.9.5.github.0

Any ideas?

Do you have any binary files in your repository? This slowness may be due to something somebody else did. — Tim Biegeleisen, Oct 07 '15 at 01:03
Also, try with a recent git for windows (2.6.1: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases) — VonC, Oct 07 '15 at 05:13
There weren't binaries in the commit, but will try a newer version of Git, though I thought GitHub desktop upgraded Git as part of its upgrade. — Peter Godwin, Oct 08 '15 at 01:32
Meant to reply to this earlier. Updating Git fixed the issue. — Peter Godwin, Nov 24 '15 at 00:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '16 at 00:47

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Upgrading to the latest version of Git resolved the issue.

answered Mar 15 '16 at 00:47

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

The issue with GitHub Desktop is that it includes its own version of git for windows, and you cannot update/upgrade it. I tried before and it didn't work.

But it is also true that since Nov 2015, GitHub Desktop finally went from an old 1.9.5 version to a 2.5+ version, which, as noted by the OP, improves the situation.

Note that you can have both GitHub Desktop and git for Windows (with different versions).

Long time to Commit

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