Why the hell is git status so slow?
The awakening of slowness You’ve been working on your data science project for a while. You have twenty notebooks, a few images, and the typical folder structure that seemed like a good idea three months ago. You run git status to see what you’ve changed and… you wait. And wait. And while you wait, you have time to wonder if the computer froze or if it’s just contemplating life. Spoiler: it’s not contemplating. It’s suffering. ...