Local commits are significantly slower than eg. VS Code (5s in Fork compared to <1s for VS Code for small local repo)

[tkafka]

I seem to never be able to push the local commit time under 5 seconds, while the VS Code git client commits the similar commits to a same repo practically instantly.

M1 Pro, macOS Tahoe (but it has been the same on the previous version), and there is no CPU usage spike during the commit.

The log just says:

$ git commit --file=/var/folders/f7/62727y2d6fl4hb_qjp_2gqlm0000gn/T/063AE1AC-54AD-46BC-9EC1-B4DE5EA48C90

[main 48e3580] lint
 6 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

There are no hooks, just a plain repo with a small (about 30 files) project.

These are my settings:

Is there anything I can to to make the commits faster? I run into this when I make a bunch of changes that I want to split into commits, and now each such commit session is slowed by waiting for the tool to finish a step that should be quite trivial.

[DanPristupov]

What exactly do you measure?
Do you mean when you commit the busy indicator on the toolbar keeps spinning for ~5s?
The commit operation is quite fast, but then the application needs to refresh the changed file list and the commit list.
Can you run benchmark in Fork and show the report?

[tkafka]

Hello Dan, thanks for a quick reply!

I measure the time until I can commit a new changeset - until the commit button is re-enabled, the changes I stage will get added to the previous commit in progress.

Here is how a similar commit looks in fork:

Screen.Recording.2025-09-23.at.12.59.33.mov

and in VS code on a same repo - instant:

Screen.Recording.2025-09-23.at.13.00.35.mov

System latency:
  Measurements (s): *0.071, 0.070, 0.018, 0.069, 0.071, 0.069, *0.006
  Avg: 0.059s

Reading changed files:
  Measurements (s): *0.078, 0.072, 0.076, 0.011, 0.009, 0.071, *0.008
  Avg: 0.048s

Reading branches and tags:
  Measurements (s): *0.070, 0.069, 0.009, 0.010, 0.069, 0.007, *0.007
  Avg: 0.033s

Reading commits:
  Measurements (s): *0.014, 0.011, 0.011, 0.011, 0.012, 0.013, *0.010
  Avg: 0.012s

Reading commits bt:
  Measurements (s): *0.004, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, *0.000
  Avg: 0.000s

Total time: 0.152s
Avg test time: 0.030s
Score = 10 / 0.030: 329.815