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How can I speed up Git cloning in Windows?

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Since my Ubuntu system is currently fried, and running a live boot was encountering problems, I am forced to resort to attempting to clone a Git repository on a Windows 10 system. I installed Git for Windows, and went through the installation process. I then authenticated with GitHub, and went to clone the repository.

While I was out of the house, and trying to download over a hotspot[1], the average download rate was 18 KiB/s. That was, naturally, impossible, so eventually I gave up until I was on a wired connection.

Even then, a download that generally takes a minute or two at most on Ubuntu, took close to half an hour on Windows, with an internet speed of about 64 Mbps.

remote: Enumerating objects: 5903, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (673/673), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (348/348), done.
remote: Total 5903 (delta 371), reused 612 (delta 321), pack-reused 5230Receiving objects: 100% (5903/5903), 459.68 MiB | 337.00 KiB/s
Receiving objects: 100% (5903/5903), 459.74 MiB | 414.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3868/3868), done.
Updating files: 100% (1158/1158), done.

Is there any way that I can speed up this process on Windows? If I have a 64Mbps connection, Git shouldn't be downloading files at a rate of 337 KiB/s.


  1. I have plenty of mobile data and the people who I need to work on the repo for are paying for the data. ↩︎

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4 comment threads

Reproducible? (1 comment)
If you don't need the Git history... (1 comment)
Do you have the linux subsystem for windows installed? If yes can you try using git from there? (2 comments)
Not really a solution for your problem, but to temporarily speed up the process while one is on a slo... (1 comment)
Reproducible?
Karl Knechtel‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Is this problem consistently reproducible? Sometimes Internet connections are just not reliable, and intermittently drop to a small fraction of their full speed.