• git clone https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch hangs

git clone https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch hangs

After adding verbose switch: git clone https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch -v, we get:

Cloning into 'pytorch'...
POST git-upload-pack (175 bytes)
POST git-upload-pack (chunked)

According to StackOverflow:

This is a bug in Git; when using HTTPS it will use chunked encoding for uploads above a certain size. Those do not work. A trivial fix is to tell git to not chunk until some ridiculously large size value...

Add this to ~/.gitconfig:

[http]
        postBuffer = 157286400