On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 15:03:17 +0200, Roman Perepelitsa wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 8:07 AM Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > > Speed up the prompt on large and/or deep working directories [...] > > Do you have an estimate of the speedup? Numbers from at least one > repository on one machine would be useful to see. I see a 4x speedup on a large Git-enabled home directory, as follows: $ time (git status --porcelain | wc -l) 212 0.01s user 0.02s system 0% cpu 9.021 total $ time (git status --porcelain | grep '??' &>/dev/null) 0.01s user 0.02s system 0% cpu 12.294 total $ time (git status --porcelain | grep -q '^?? ' 2>/dev/null) 0.01s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 3.097 total