@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 					TagReference
 				)
 
-from git.util import  join_path
+from git.util import join_path
 from gitdb.util import join
 
 import re
@@ -33,6 +33,58 @@
 
 __all__ = ('RemoteProgress', 'PushInfo', 'FetchInfo', 'Remote')
 
+#{ Utilities
+
+def digest_process_messages(fh, progress):
+	"""Read progress messages from file-like object fh, supplying the respective
+	progress messages to the progress instance.
+	
+	:param fh: File handle to read from 
+	:return: list(line, ...) list of lines without linebreaks that did
+		not contain progress information"""
+	line_so_far = ''
+	dropped_lines = list()
+	while True:
+		char = fh.read(1)
+		if not char:
+			break
+
+		if char in ('\r', '\n'):
+			dropped_lines.extend(progress._parse_progress_line(line_so_far))
+			line_so_far = ''
+		else:
+			line_so_far += char
+		# END process parsed line
+	# END while file is not done reading
+	return dropped_lines
+
+def finalize_process(proc):
+	"""Wait for the process (clone, fetch, pull or push) and handle its errors accordingly"""
+	try:
+		proc.wait()
+	except GitCommandError,e:
+		# if a push has rejected items, the command has non-zero return status
+		# a return status of 128 indicates a connection error - reraise the previous one
+		if proc.poll() == 128:
+			raise
+		pass
+	# END exception handling
+
+def add_progress(kwargs, git, progress):
+	"""Add the --progress flag to the given kwargs dict if supported by the 
+	git command. If the actual progress in the given progress instance is not 
+	given, we do not request any progress
+	:return: possibly altered kwargs"""
+	if progress is not None:
+		v = git.version_info
+		if v[0] > 1 or v[1] > 7 or v[2] > 0 or v[3] > 3:
+			kwargs['progress'] = True
+		#END handle --progress
+	#END handle progress
+	return kwargs
+
+#} END utilities
+
 
 class PushInfo(object):
 	"""
@@ -432,42 +484,6 @@ def update(self, **kwargs):
 		self.repo.git.remote("update", self.name)
 		return self
 
-	def _digest_process_messages(self, fh, progress):
-		"""Read progress messages from file-like object fh, supplying the respective
-		progress messages to the progress instance.
-		
-		:return: list(line, ...) list of lines without linebreaks that did 
-			not contain progress information"""
-		line_so_far = ''
-		dropped_lines = list()
-		while True:
-			char = fh.read(1)
-			if not char:
-				break
-			
-			if char in ('\r', '\n'):
-				dropped_lines.extend(progress._parse_progress_line(line_so_far))
-				line_so_far = ''
-			else:
-				line_so_far += char
-			# END process parsed line
-		# END while file is not done reading
-		return dropped_lines
-		
-	
-	def _finalize_proc(self, proc):
-		"""Wait for the process (fetch, pull or push) and handle its errors accordingly"""
-		try:
-			proc.wait()
-		except GitCommandError,e:
-			# if a push has rejected items, the command has non-zero return status
-			# a return status of 128 indicates a connection error - reraise the previous one
-			if proc.poll() == 128:
-				raise
-			pass
-		# END exception handling
-		
-	
 	def _get_fetch_info_from_stderr(self, proc, progress):
 		# skip first line as it is some remote info we are not interested in
 		output = IterableList('name')
@@ -477,7 +493,7 @@ def _get_fetch_info_from_stderr(self, proc, progress):
 		# this also waits for the command to finish
 		# Skip some progress lines that don't provide relevant information
 		fetch_info_lines = list()
-		for line in self._digest_process_messages(proc.stderr, progress):
+		for line in digest_process_messages(proc.stderr, progress):
 			if line.startswith('From') or line.startswith('remote: Total'):
 				continue
 			elif line.startswith('warning:'):
@@ -499,15 +515,15 @@ def _get_fetch_info_from_stderr(self, proc, progress):
 		output.extend(FetchInfo._from_line(self.repo, err_line, fetch_line) 
 						for err_line,fetch_line in zip(fetch_info_lines, fetch_head_info))
 
-		self._finalize_proc(proc)
+		finalize_process(proc)
 		return output
 
 	def _get_push_info(self, proc, progress):
 		# read progress information from stderr
 		# we hope stdout can hold all the data, it should ...
 		# read the lines manually as it will use carriage returns between the messages
 		# to override the previous one. This is why we read the bytes manually
-		self._digest_process_messages(proc.stderr, progress)
+		digest_process_messages(proc.stderr, progress)
 
 		output = IterableList('name')
 		for line in proc.stdout.readlines():
@@ -519,7 +535,7 @@ def _get_push_info(self, proc, progress):
 			# END exception handling 
 		# END for each line
 
-		self._finalize_proc(proc)
+		finalize_process(proc)
 		return output
 
 
@@ -546,6 +562,7 @@ def fetch(self, refspec=None, progress=None, **kwargs):
 		:note:
 			As fetch does not provide progress information to non-ttys, we cannot make 
 			it available here unfortunately as in the 'push' method."""
+		kwargs = add_progress(kwargs, self.repo.git, progress)
 		proc = self.repo.git.fetch(self, refspec, with_extended_output=True, as_process=True, v=True, **kwargs)
 		return self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress or RemoteProgress())
 
@@ -557,6 +574,7 @@ def pull(self, refspec=None, progress=None, **kwargs):
 		:param progress: see 'push' method
 		:param kwargs: Additional arguments to be passed to git-pull
 		:return: Please see 'fetch' method """
+		kwargs = add_progress(kwargs, self.repo.git, progress)
 		proc = self.repo.git.pull(self, refspec, with_extended_output=True, as_process=True, v=True, **kwargs)
 		return self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress or RemoteProgress())
 
@@ -578,6 +596,7 @@ def push(self, refspec=None, progress=None, **kwargs):
 			in their flags.
 			If the operation fails completely, the length of the returned IterableList will
 			be null."""
+		kwargs = add_progress(kwargs, self.repo.git, progress)
 		proc = self.repo.git.push(self, refspec, porcelain=True, as_process=True, **kwargs)
 		return self._get_push_info(proc, progress or RemoteProgress())
 
 
@@ -11,13 +11,18 @@
 from git.index import IndexFile
 from git.objects import *
 from git.config import GitConfigParser
-from git.remote import Remote
+from git.remote import (
+						Remote,
+						digest_process_messages,
+						finalize_process,
+						add_progress
+					)
+
 from git.db import (
 				GitCmdObjectDB, 
 				GitDB
 				)
 
-
 from gitdb.util import (
 							join,
 							isfile,
@@ -652,7 +657,7 @@ def init(cls, path=None, mkdir=True, **kwargs):
 		return Repo(path)
 
 	@classmethod
-	def _clone(cls, git, url, path, odb_default_type, **kwargs):
+	def _clone(cls, git, url, path, odb_default_type, progress, **kwargs):
 		# special handling for windows for path at which the clone should be 
 		# created.
 		# tilde '~' will be expanded to the HOME no matter where the ~ occours. Hence
@@ -679,7 +684,11 @@ def _clone(cls, git, url, path, odb_default_type, **kwargs):
 		# END windows handling 
 
 		try:
-			git.clone(url, path, **kwargs)
+			proc = git.clone(url, path, with_extended_output=True, as_process=True, v=True, **add_progress(kwargs, git, progress))
+			if progress:
+				digest_process_messages(proc.stderr, progress)
+			#END handle progress
+			finalize_process(proc)
 		finally:
 			if prev_cwd is not None:
 				os.chdir(prev_cwd)
@@ -703,28 +712,31 @@ def _clone(cls, git, url, path, odb_default_type, **kwargs):
 		# END handle remote repo
 		return repo
 
-	def clone(self, path, **kwargs):
+	def clone(self, path, progress=None, **kwargs):
 		"""Create a clone from this repository.
 		:param path:
 			is the full path of the new repo (traditionally ends with ./<name>.git).
 
+		:param progress: See 'git.remote.Remote.push'.
+
 		:param kwargs:
 			odbt = ObjectDatabase Type, allowing to determine the object database
 			implementation used by the returned Repo instance
 			
 			All remaining keyword arguments are given to the git-clone command
 			
 		:return: ``git.Repo`` (the newly cloned repo)"""
-		return self._clone(self.git, self.git_dir, path, type(self.odb), **kwargs)
+		return self._clone(self.git, self.git_dir, path, type(self.odb), progress, **kwargs)
 
 	@classmethod
-	def clone_from(cls, url, to_path, **kwargs):
+	def clone_from(cls, url, to_path, progress=None, **kwargs):
 		"""Create a clone from the given URL
 		:param url: valid git url, see http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clone.html#URLS
 		:param to_path: Path to which the repository should be cloned to
+		:param progress: See 'git.remote.Remote.push'.
 		:param kwargs: see the ``clone`` method
 		:return: Repo instance pointing to the cloned directory"""
-		return cls._clone(Git(os.getcwd()), url, to_path, GitCmdObjectDB, **kwargs)
+		return cls._clone(Git(os.getcwd()), url, to_path, GitCmdObjectDB, progress, **kwargs)
 
 	def archive(self, ostream, treeish=None, prefix=None,  **kwargs):
 		"""Archive the tree at the given revision.
 
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ class RemoteProgress(object):
 	Handler providing an interface to parse progress information emitted by git-push
 	and git-fetch and to dispatch callbacks allowing subclasses to react to the progress.
 	"""
-	_num_op_codes = 5
-	BEGIN, END, COUNTING, COMPRESSING, WRITING =  [1 << x for x in range(_num_op_codes)]
+	_num_op_codes = 7
+	BEGIN, END, COUNTING, COMPRESSING, WRITING, RECEIVING, RESOLVING = [1 << x for x in range(_num_op_codes)]
 	STAGE_MASK = BEGIN|END
 	OP_MASK = ~STAGE_MASK
 
@@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ def _parse_progress_line(self, line):
 				op_code |= self.COMPRESSING
 			elif op_name == "Writing objects":
 				op_code |= self.WRITING
+			elif op_name == 'Receiving objects':
+				op_code |= self.RECEIVING
+			elif op_name == 'Resolving deltas':
+				op_code |= self.RESOLVING
 			else:
 				raise ValueError("Operation name %r unknown" % op_name)