Re: Emacs with git slow?

[Lowell Gilbert]

S Boucher <stbya@yahoo.com> writes:

> finding and saving files (C-xC-f and C-xC-s) that are under git control is 
> slow 
> on my system.
>
> It's of the order of a second, which is terrible.
>
> Anyone noticed this?
>
> I see this slow response time even when I start emacs -nw -q.
>
> Things are snappy with files not under git.
>
> I haven't dug in the emacs git code yet, and am hoping I won't have to :-)

I don't use git, but is it possible that it's checking with repositories
to get the file's current status?  If it needs to consult with remote
machines, a second of latency is perfectly understandable.