Anecdote: gitstatus performance in a large Git repository

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• Source: starship/starship#921.
• Timing for git status: between 12 and 15 seconds.
  • Method of timing: likely time git status.
  • Reported time: probably wall time.
  • Cold or hot: unknown.
• Timing for gitstatus_query: between 3 and 4 seconds.
  • Method of timing: unknown.
  • Reported time: probably wall time.
  • Cold or hot: unknown.
  • gitstatusd command-line arguments: unknown.
• Repository state: clean, soon after git gc, possibly with ignored files.
• Output of git ls-files --others --ignored --exclude-standard | wc -l: unknown.
• Output of git ls-files | wc -l: likely over 1M and probably less than 30M.
• Output of git tag | wc -l: unknown.
• Timing for git describe --tags --exact-match: unknown.
• OS: macOS or Windows (unknown whether WSL, WSL2, Cygwin or MSYS2).
• Storage device: SSD (unknown whether SATA or NVME).
• File system: unknown.
• CPU: unknown.