To workaround the slowdown using git on windows filesystem under wsl …
Define the following alias, which will choose to use git.exe when accessing
repos on windows drives (/mnt/... under wsl):
alias git='f(){ if [[ $PWD == /mnt/* ]] ;then git.exe "$@" ;else /usr/bin/git "$@" ;fi }; f'
Update 6-Aug-2021 : new version above, previous version performed slow filesystem expansion:
alias git='f(){ case $PWD/ in /mnt/*) git.exe "$@";; *) /usr/bin/git "$@";; esac }; f'
git settings
If using a repository with a lot of submodules, consider using the following which will stop it descending into submodule working dirs.
git config --bool bash.showDirtyState false
If using git-prompt.sh aka __git_ps1 consider turning off some of the setttings using environment variables such as:
export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=1 # <--- my pref to leave this on
export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=
Note that each option turned off reduces the usefulness of the prompt.
Some of the options are described in this post.
Thanks
Given a steer by this response on the related WSL github issue.