bitbucket - How do I download a large Git Repository?

Question

I have a GIT repository on BitBucket which is more than 4GB.

I can't clone the repository using the normal GIT command as it fails (looks like it's working for a long time but then rolls back).
I also can't download the repository as a zip from the BitBucket interface as:

Feature unavailable This repository is too large for us to generate a download.

Is there any way to download a GIT repository incrementally?

Answer 1

If you don't need to pull the whole history you could specify the number of revisions to clone

git clone <repo_url> --depth=1

Of course this might not help if you have a particularly large file in your repository