Note: Results may vary, depending on distance from your Git servers. In my completely unscientific benchmarks using time, after the following steps, git pull went from ~5s, using GitHub, to ~0.1s, using EC2 on AWS Singapore. Why? 1 2 3 4 $ time git pull Already up-to-date. real 0m5.075s 5 seconds just to tell you that your Git repository is already up-to-date? Unacceptable. Enable SSH Connection S