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Improve Git speed in WSL

bebound@gmail.com (KK) — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:16:00 +0800

The disk performance in WSL2 is poor, it takes a long time to run git status in a host’s repo. Moreover, if you set a fancy shell prompt, it will take a long time to show the prompt. This article will introduce how to speed up Git in WSL2.

How to speed up Git Command

The performance of file system in WSL2 is poor, it takes a long time to run git status in a host’s repo. The solution is to use git.exe in Windows folder. You can add this into your bashrc:

Line Ending in Git

bebound@gmail.com (KK) — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:40:00 +0800

When working on a project with multiple developers, the line ending can be troublesome. This article will explain how to configure line ending in Git.

Basic configuration

The line ending on Windows is CRLF, on Linux is LF. To prevent the line ending issue, we can set core.autocrlf to true on Windows to let git convert CRLF to LF when commit, and convert LF to CRLF when checkout. It is automatically configured if you install git on Windows.