[chelu@cuddles tmp]$ time git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/chelu/tmp/rails/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 68645 objects.
remote: Deltifying 68645 objects...
remote:  100% (68645/68645) done
remote: Total 68645 (delta 52668), reused 68645 (delta 52668)
Receiving objects: 100% (68645/68645), 9.98 MiB | 102 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (52668/52668), done.

real    2m49.144s
user    0m8.202s
sys     0m2.574s