Way to throttle git while it’s cloning a repo

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Is there a way to tell git to only use so much bandwidth while cloning a repo?

I may have multiple applications – each of which demands different network speeds. Is there a way to tell git to do this? I only want to do it for this session, not every time.

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Yes, there's always trickle. Install it, then try something like trickle -sd 50 git clone.

-s is for standalone mode, -d is for download limit, in KB/s

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How about bibsort?

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SYNOPSIS
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Edit2 I just recognized you'd like to sort for any key, while bibsort apparently sorts by the bibtex tags only -- but maybe its source (it's not too long) is still helpful...?

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