git clone never completes

Question

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?

Answer 1

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)