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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2021-09-21T14:29:12Z"
+ content="""
+Each `git add` has to run a new `git annex smudge`
+process. `git commit` will often run it as well.
+This is discussed in detail in
+[[todo/git_smudge_clean_interface_suboptiomal]].
+
+According to
+<https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/5994#issuecomment-923744895>
+git-annex 8.20201127 had the same performance that you are seeing
+with the current version. So it cannot be any changes in the past year
+that impacted git-annex performance.
+
+But <https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/5317> seems like it would
+have been using around the same version of git-annex, and the timing there
+was much faster. Unfortunatly the issue does not say what version
+of git-annex was used, but it seems likely it would have been around
+8.20201127 since that was released 2 months prior.
+
+So are the timings in those issues comparable, or is it an apples/oranges
+comparison with different hardware or OS version?
+
+And if the timings between those issues are not comparable, what exactly
+is this new issue comparing with when it says the peformance has worsened?
+"""]]