On 29 Mar 2013, at 08:58, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > I misremembered, then. But it definitely took me 30 minutes today to make a new clone of git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs. FWIW, I just did this for the first time, on a reasonably modern macosx laptop and residential cable modem inside the US: ; git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs Cloning into 'emacs'... remote: Counting objects: 702132, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (140829/140829), done. remote: Total 702132 (delta 562334), reused 699521 (delta 560328) Receiving objects: 100% (702132/702132), 863.79 MiB | 297 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (562334/562334), done. 135.588u 14.156s 16:43.53 14.9% 0+0k 327+2868io 3pf+0w In case it's not clear, the wall-clock time was 16 minutes, 43.53 seconds. ~Chad