I live in Singapore. This is the standard time a git pull takes:
$ time git pull
Already up-to-date.
real 0m5.272s
user 0m0.045s
sys 0m0.037s
It's a bit annoying to wait so much every single time git needs to access the github remote. To solve that, it's possible to keep a ssh connection open with github and use it instead of opening a new one every time.
To do so, add the following lines to your ~/.ssh/config file:
Host github.com
TCPKeepAlive yes
ServerAliveInterval 60
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/connection-%r@%h:%p
After that, to keep a connection open with github run the following command and send it to the background:
ssh -fN [email protected]
When this is running, this is the new time for a git pull:
$ time git pull
Already up-to-date.
real 0m1.593s
user 0m0.032s
sys 0m0.033s