The author doesn't mention whether he is using cygwin git, or msys git. msys is faster. But even with msys, UAC virtualization is a common cause of slowness with git:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835775/msysgit-bash-is-h...
More details here: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=320
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