Vim start-up extremely slow under Cygwin when fugitive.vim plugin is installed

Question

I've just started running Vim under cygwin via puttycyg. I find this much better than gVim under windows ;)

Anyway, the fugitive.vim plugin causes Vim to take 15-20 seconds to startup. After Vim has started, everything seems normal. I can use fugitive.vim as normal from that point on.

What could be the cause of this slowness? Something to do with cygwin I bet... Any ideas?

Answer 1

Git in general in cygwin seems to be slow. The bashrc settings that modify my prompt based on git status is lightning fast on OSX and Linux, and takes about a half-second or longer on Cygwin's bash. Other git operations are similarly slow by comparison on Cygwin. I suspect the underlying library that fugitive uses.