__git_ps1 extremely slow in kernel tree

Question

$ time __git_ps1
((v2.6.33.4))
real    0m1.467s
user    0m0.864s
sys  0m0.564s

It\'s making my prompt unusable; on the other hand, though, it\'s too us

Answer 1

could you try my version of git PS1 is it faster or equally slow ?