Committing changes on Visual Studio Tools for Git is really slow

Question

I'm pretty sure the slowness issue when you committing changes in VS Team Explorer now becomes a real pain for many developers, I was wondering if anyone come across the same issue ? or have any work around this problem ?

The slowness is only when you commit your changes but it is fast when it passes this stage and you Sync it.

Answer 1

Commit shouldn't be slow as it is completely local. Try to compact the local git database using one of the many git gui tools. I like "git extensions" and this one: https://git-for-windows.github.io. The last tool has a menu choice to compact the database which removes all old and loose objects from the repository making it faster.