git stuck on Unpacking Objects phase

Question

I'm trying to do a git pull from a remote repository in github into a local machine... but git gets stuck on 70% into the "Unpacking objects" phase, with no sign of going anywhere.. (left it for several hours now with no change)

Any suggestion on how to fix this issue?

Is it possible to instruct git to only download the latest commit/version from the remote repository without all the Intermediate states?

Answer 1

I had the same problem when I git pull a repository on github.com. I found there were some large files and the connection to github was slow. So maybe you just have to wait patiently before git pulls the whole repository.