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I don't have an answer, but I have an additional complaint. Git itself is pretty terrible at dealing with large repositories if for no other reason than because "git clone" has no resume feature. If your internet connection is interrupted at any point during the initial clone it dies and you have to start over. This means that on an unreliable internet connection it is nearly impossible to clone large repositories.

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A git clone is not the same as just rsyncing a .git directory, but if you know Git, the latter can be made to work. You may want to GC the source repo first, and you'll need to manually add a remote and possibly clean up branches after you're done but a quick bash script can finish that up a treat too. (Good task to practice bash scripting on, if you're not familiar with it.)

I've done that, waste of time. There's just no excuse for git being unable to resume a clone.

I've never heard this complaint before. I would have never guessed it would be a problem. Anyway, for the clone, you could just use a different command (such as rsync) to download the other Git repository to your HD, and use git clone on the local path. There is little difference since git clone grabs everything.

Subsequent pulls can be done directly to the remote repository.

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