What is my bottleneck when cloning a git repository from a virtual machine with a fast network connection?

Question

I have a situation with a relatively large git repository located in a virtual machine on an elderly, slow host on my local network where it takes quite a while to do the initia

Answer 1

I'm bench marking git clone.

It can be faster with --jobs options if the project include submodules ex:

git clone --recursive --shallow-submodules --depth 1 --branch "your tag or branch" --jobs 5 --  "your remote repo"