How to boost git performance on Windows

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Has anyone got ideas to boost the git performance on windows? I am testing git on windows 2012 64 bit server (testing environment) with latest git 1.8.3. Intel Xeon @2.5 GHz 12 cores (24 threads) with 32 GB RAM.
Here are the tweaks ive done so far :- uninstall non critical software- disable firewall - not using any antivirus - disable non critical windows services- set windows performance options ==> "adjust for best performance"- use git portable- disabled the UAC

Compared to the git performance on linux, the git on windows are wayyyy slower.Example on linux : 1 min, on windows : 13 mins. Please suggest other improvements?

posted Jul 22, 2013 by anonymous

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I've noticed that sometimes file accesses on Windows can be remarkably slow on machines connected to an AD domain. I'm not experienced enough to know *why*, but if the machines you are using are in a
domain it might worth a shot to just pull them out temporarily. If it makes a significant difference you'll have to dig more into the system settings to find out why that is.

answer Jul 22, 2013 by anonymous

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