[daemin]

Yeah, the git metadata is on a remote file server, that's the entire point of the Microsoft file system extensions for running a huge git monorepo. The code and assets you are working on is local, but the history and other metadata elements are stored remote and lazy loaded.

So if you're remote file server is relatively close it doesn't matter too much and the lag is not noticeable, but if it's across the country or across the world...