new forum post "Why is git annex status slow?"

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+It seems that `git annex status` is much slower than `git status`, at least in direct mode. The man page does not give any hint about why it should be slower.
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+Does `git annex status` do something that `git status` does not?
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+Here is an example in a repo with 8000+ files in direct mode and with no modified files:
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+    $ time git -c core.bare=false status --porcelain > /dev/null
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+    real   0m0.096s
+    user   0m0.042s
+    sys    0m0.071s
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+    $ time git annex status
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+    real   0m17.144s
+    user   0m10.555s
+    sys    0m1.934s
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+It is strange to see that `git annex status` is ~200 times slower than the bare `git status`.