Background

I’ve uploaded nearly 200 blog posts to this blog.

Problem

As there’re more and more pages here, the execution speed of the command git status gradually decreased.

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Solution

I ran the command git gc in Git Bash on M$ Win* 7.

Welcome to Git (version 1.9.4-preview20140929)


Run 'git help git' to display the help index.
Run 'git help ' to display help for specific commands.

Owner@OWNER-PC ~
$ cd /c/github/vincenttam.github.io/

Owner@OWNER-PC /c/github/vincenttam.github.io (source)
$ git gc
Counting objects: 8116, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (3621/3621), done.
Writing objects: 100% (8116/8116), done.
Total 8116 (delta 4603), reused 7360 (delta 4064)
Removing duplicate objects: 100% (256/256), done.

Owner@OWNER-PC /c/github/vincenttam.github.io (source)
$

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(Added on Dec 21, 2014)

I also compressed the local repositories on Ubuntu.

[owner@localhost ~/octopress]$ git gc
Counting objects: 14057, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (7403/7403), done.
Writing objects: 100% (14057/14057), done.
Total 14057 (delta 7553), reused 11466 (delta 5741)
Checking connectivity: 49889, done.
[owner@localhost ~/octopress]$ cd _deploy/
[owner@localhost ~/octopress/_deploy]$ git gc
Counting objects: 48241, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (16913/16913), done.
Writing objects: 100% (48241/48241), done.
Total 48241 (delta 23195), reused 38708 (delta 18503)
Removing duplicate objects: 100% (256/256), done.