title: Jenkins time-out while fetching from Github in 10 mins.
body: <p>I've stuck with this issue while configuring Jenkins for Nightly build. Please note that the repository project "project1" is large and is about 900MB. Please let me know how should I go around this problem.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Started by user anonymous
  Building in workspace C:\Users\user1\.jenkins\jobs\Nightly Build\workspace
  Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
  Fetching upstream changes from git@github.com:MyOrg/projectgroup/project1
  ERROR: Timeout after 10 minutes
  FATAL: Failed to fetch from git@github.com:MyOrg/projectgroup/project1
  hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from git@github.com:MyOrg/projectgroup/project1
      at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:612)
      at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:836)
      at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:861)
      at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1412)
      at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:652)
      at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:88)
      at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:557)
      at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1679)
      at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:509)
      at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
      at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:230)
  Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "fetch -t git@github.com:MyOrg/projectgroup/project1 +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code -1:
  stdout: 
  stderr: 
      at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:981)
      at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:920)
      at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.fetch(CliGitAPIImpl.java:187)
      at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.fetch(GitAPI.java:229)
      at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:610)
      ... 10 more
  </code></pre>