Progress indicator for git clone

Is it possible to get a progress bar when doing a git clone? I'm wondering because I am currently doing a git clone that has taken a few minutes so far and would be curious to know if it is going to finish soon.

I am currently doing a git clone that has taken a few minutes so far and would be curious to know if it is going to finish soon.

With Git 2.10 (Q3 2016), git clone --progress will be more verbose.

See commit 38e590e by Jeff King (peff)
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano in commit a58a8e3 Aug. 4th 2016)}

clone: use a real progress meter for connectivity check

Because the initial connectivity check for a cloned repository can be slow, 0781aa4 (clone: let the user know when check_everything_connected is run, 2013-05-03) added a "fake" progress meter; we simply say "Checking connectivity" when it starts, and "done" at the end, with nothing between.

Since check_connected() now knows how to do a real progress meter, we can drop our fake one and use that one instead.

As noted by ks1322 in the comments

--progress is enabled by default when you run git clone from a terminal. There is no need to write it explicitly for terminal.