git clone never completes

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I am trying to use git clone on Mac OS Snow Leopard. All I do is "git clone https://*/project.git" from documents/projects directory. For some reason operation never completes and stops at random points somewhere at the "Receiving Files:" stage(different % of copied files each time). Am I doing something wrong?

What remote are you using? I have had problems clning using a VPS with not enough memory before. — learnvst, Apr 22 '12 at 09:08
We can't tell whether you're doing something wrong if you don't tell us what you're doing. — Greg Hewgill, Apr 22 '12 at 09:11

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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I have usually seen this symptom on repos with a "resource locked" issue, because of some processes keeping an handle on one of the git files.

Last time was for a git repo directly part of a Dropbox shared directory. (Which is why I always recommend to share in a Dropbox directory only the bundle, not the all git repo structure itself)

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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answered Apr 22 '12 at 09:35

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But if something is locked then I guess it should always stuck at certain point. But for me it can stop one time at 7% another time at 67%. Completely random. – Alex Apr 22 '12 at 09:39
@Aleksey that's my point: the DropBox sync was locking a different resource every time when synchronizing different part of the many files of a Git repo structure. Hence the randomness. Depending on the nature of the process locking resources, that randomness can apply too here. – VonC Apr 22 '12 at 09:41

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