title: git taking a long time to load
body: <p>So I pulled a large number of files using git once (massive). </p>
  
  <p>But then I used <code>git rm</code> to remove the directory from the git database because git started taking a long time to pull from origin, but calling <code>git rm</code> did not solve the problem - git still takes a long time to pull from origin. </p>
  
  <p>What can I do other than recreating the repository to fix this problem?</p>