Comment 6 for bug 556132

I also encountered this error (using the same repository), I have the following additional comments:

1) For some reason the problem seems to only come up on Windows, and not on ubuntu (I could personally finally circumvent it by branching in a virtual machine ubuntu), this could mean the package in ubuntu doesn't have the problems yet, or hundreds of other things, you probably know better than me :)

2) For me making a Lightweight checkout works, only branching (or not lightweight checkout) had this problem. This might just be because that is smaller and thus finishes sooner, but I don't think the whole branching took 1 hour either.

3) Just wanted to make note that this repository recently had some mix-ups in it's history (some bad commits that removed revisions, that were later put back), and the problems started appearing since then. So, it might be some problem with launchpad's storage of this repository, or something like that, I don't know if that's possible. (Those changes also increased the size, and undoing them didn't decrease them I think, so there might be some artifacts remaining)

Other than that, I can confirm that yes, it downloads the more than 1GB data, and only drops out then (with all data erased, the repository stays at ~0 size). If I have time I might try the things you mentioned.

Thanks for your time!