git status takes too long - What are the ways to improve git status performance

[Ravalika]

Hi All,

We are using git-1.8.2 version for version control.

It is an centralized server and git status takes too long

How to improve the performance of git status

Git repo details:

Size of the .git folder is 8.9MB

Number of commits approx 53838  (git rev-list HEAD --count)

Number of branches -  330  

Number of files - 63883

Working tree clone size is 4.3GB

time git status shows

real 0m23.673s

user 0m9.432s

sys 0m3.793s

then after 5 mins

real    0m4.864s

user    0m1.417s

sys     0m4.710s

And I have experimented following ways but no significant change 

-          -  Setting core.ignorestat to true

-          -  Git gc &git clean

-          -  Shallow clone – Reducing number of commits

-          -  Clone only one branch 

      - Git repacking - git repack -ad && git prune

-     - Cold/warm cache 

Could you please let me know, what are the other ways to improve the git performance ?

Thank you,

Renuka