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I'm a developer at Overleaf.

If you have a lot of files or some large files it can slow things down a lot. The git server is something that's due for a revamp, but as it stands the best thing you can do for now is separate out your LaTeX content and other project assets into different repositories. (We usually see these kind of problems when people have a bunch of non-document stuff in their Overleaf project)

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> The git server is something that's due for a revamp,

Thanks for the suggestion! Indeed the largest repos are the slowest to update, even when we only change a single character on a small text file. This behavior is surprising because it is not what happens in git proper, some other part of the system must be introducing the delay.

I look forward to a normalization of overleaf's git interface, most notably the ability to have regular files, symbolic links and so on.

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