Brad

I think it's too slow in general. Even in a small repo it's taking around 10 seconds. I'm using it in cygwin on Windows 7 if that makes any difference.

With git-prompt disabled I get sub-second responses, both just hitting enter and executing git status. With git-prompt enabled, the responses jump to the 5-6 second range. After running git_prompt_toggle, responses...

You are correct in it doesn't make much sense. But for a new user and not realizing that TDM automatically subscribed to the common patterns, I added all my custom...

Agreed. People in a hurry sometimes fail to read, or don't comprehend completely. Filtering out the bad characters might be beneficial.