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Git on Windows files - SLOWOW compared to GitHub

We decided to host our shared Git repositories on a Windows Server share. All developers then access this resource through a VPN connection to push / pull changes.

And it works great.

But we got the suspicion that it was slower than usual, i.e. compared to GitHub - so we decided to do a little speed test and set up the same project both on the local file archive and on Github.

And the result was frightening: the Fileshare Git repository was 5-7 times slower than using GitHub.

Can anyone give me any clues who has a HUGE speed difference?

The Windows file system is located on fair Windows Server 2003, which is basically just servers as a file server, and the server is NOT busy or something like that.

All developers access this resource from Mac OSX.

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If by “fileshare” you mean that you are using the “ local protocol ” (ie the remote repository is in a different directory on - here is remote-disk), then this is normal: SSH or smart-http will be faster.

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