[JENKINS-58349] Initial lightweight checkout of Jenkinsfile much slower on huge repos

I have a pipeline projects that runs pipeline script from Git repo.

The repo became big, and the clone operation times out after 10 minutes.

I added "Advances checkout behaviours" and "Advances clone behaviours" with much bigger timeout, but it still times out after 10 minutes.

 

 

hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git fetch --tags --progress origin +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master --prune" returned status code 128:

stdout:

stderr: remote: Enumerating objects: 6828, done.

remote: Counting objects: 0% (1/6828)

remote: Counting objects: 1% (69/6828)

...

Receiving objects: 24% (5538/22691), 8.95 MiB | 14.00 KiB/s

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

fatal: early EOF

fatal: index-pack failed

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2042)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1761)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$400(CliGitAPIImpl.java:72)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:442)

at jenkins.plugins.git.GitSCMFileSystem$BuilderImpl.build(GitSCMFileSystem.java:351)

at jenkins.scm.api.SCMFileSystem.of(SCMFileSystem.java:198)

at jenkins.scm.api.SCMFileSystem.of(SCMFileSystem.java:174)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScmFlowDefinition.create(CpsScmFlowDefinition.java:108)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScmFlowDefinition.create(CpsScmFlowDefinition.java:67)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.run(WorkflowRun.java:293)

at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)

at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)

Finished: FAILURE

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Originally reported by oren_icx, imported from: Initial lightweight checkout of Jenkinsfile much slower on huge repos

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): git-plugin
  
• label(s): git, jenkins, pipeline, plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 1
  
• watchers: 2
  
• imported: 2025-12-02
  

Raw content of original issue

I have a pipeline projects that runs pipeline script from Git repo.


The repo became big, and the clone operation times out after 10 minutes.


I added "Advances checkout behaviours" and "Advances clone behaviours" with much bigger timeout, but it still times out after 10 minutes.


 


 

hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git fetch --tags --progress origin +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master --prune" returned status code 128:

stdout: 

stderr: remote: Enumerating objects: 6828, done.        

remote: Counting objects:   0% (1/6828)           

remote: Counting objects:   1% (69/6828)           

...


Receiving objects:  24% (5538/22691), 8.95 MiB | 14.00 KiB/s   

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

fatal: early EOF

fatal: index-pack failed


	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2042)

	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1761)

	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$400(CliGitAPIImpl.java:72)

	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:442)

	at jenkins.plugins.git.GitSCMFileSystem$BuilderImpl.build(GitSCMFileSystem.java:351)

	at jenkins.scm.api.SCMFileSystem.of(SCMFileSystem.java:198)

	at jenkins.scm.api.SCMFileSystem.of(SCMFileSystem.java:174)

	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScmFlowDefinition.create(CpsScmFlowDefinition.java:108)

	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScmFlowDefinition.create(CpsScmFlowDefinition.java:67)

	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.run(WorkflowRun.java:293)

	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)

	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)

Finished: FAILURE

environment

```
Jenkins 2.176.1

Git plugin 3.10.0
```