Git clone from remote repo hangs after Compressing Objects 100% done

Question

I work in Windows 7, 64-bit.

I want to check out source code from a private git repo which I am connected to by OpenVPN.

I connected to a private server via OpenVPN for Windows. The connection is established and works fine, I can ping the server and connect via SSH to it.

Next, I want to clone the git repository via

 git clone http://username:pw@url/folder

Bash shows immediately

Cloning into "projektname"
remote: Counting Objects: 6772, done
remote: Compressing Objects: 100% (6389/6389),done
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and then hangs, no error, no clue what happens, I can cut the VPN connection to get a response from git or press Ctrl+C but nothing else.

git created a folder projektname but it is empty except for the .git folder.

I looked through forum posts for several hours, but haven't found a similar post with the same problem. I tried to get more information on git with

 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 GIT_TRACE=1 git clone ....

but didn't find anything suspicious. I am thankful for any ideas about what else I can try or where I have to look into. I tried several different git clients (cygwin, Tortoise, git bash, git gui).

unfortunatly I don´t know, but there shouldn´t be any big files, it only consists of javascript files for a web app — baumi1543, Jan 03 '14 at 15:22
As .git is present, can you do `git pull`, or `git branch -a` and if so, does it give anything? — ʰᵈˑ, Jan 03 '14 at 15:32
git pull results in the same screen as described in my post, git branch -a doesn´t do anything — baumi1543, Jan 03 '14 at 17:31
I found the solution... something with my router setup is wrong. I can check out from another network. I have no clue what could be wrong with my router , every othern VPN connections just works fine — baumi1543, Jan 07 '14 at 09:34
Try using `git fetch`. E.g. `mkdir foo; cd foo; git init; git remote add origin ; git fetch origin; git checkout master` — onionjake, Jul 18 '14 at 15:55
@baumi1543 Thank you. I had the same problem, I could connect to VPN being able to acces DB and other private pages, but I was not able to use git properly. I connected to VPN using other network and now git works fine too. — sergioFC, Aug 23 '16 at 16:03
I had the same issue where compressing process was abnormally long. I had to wait for ~5 mins to successfully clone the repo. It turned out it was because there are two relatively large files in my repo, each ~ 40MB. — moho wu, Dec 12 '17 at 11:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 10 '16 at 13:18

Here is the answer (So users will know how to resolve it if they need to).
The answer was posted by the owner in one of the above comments.

I found the solution... something with my router setup is wrong.
I can check out from another network.
I have no clue what could be wrong with my router , every other VPN connections just works fine.

So the problem was with the router and has nothing to do with git.

Git clone from remote repo hangs after Compressing Objects 100% done

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