GitVersion is exteremely slow within TFS build agent context

[lucom]

When GitVersion is run as part of a build definition in TFS (as GitVersion TFS Task or inside a PowerShell script) it takes around 8 minutes to determine the version and to finish.

The command (typed in and also generated by GitVersion Task for TFS):
D:\agent\tasks\GitVersion\3.6.5\GitVersion.exe D:\agent\_work\13\s /output buildserver /nofetch /ensureassemblyinfo /updateassemblyinfo VersionInfo.cs

Running exactly the same command with the same parameters as a normal user on the same repository only takes around one second.

This was tested with the following:

• GitVersion 3.6.5 and 3.6.4 (from GitVersion Task for TFS or installed via Chocolately)
• GitVersion as TFS Task or as command within a PowerShell build task
• On a freshly fetched repo and on an already checked out repo

ProcessMonitor shows that GitVersion behaves differently when run within a build agent. It checks way more files and directories and seems to iterate through the checked out files instead of only changing VersionInfo.cs which lies in the root of the repo.

[asbjornu]

Sounds like a duplicate of #1065?

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