Is there a way to tell git that only use so much bandwidth while cloning a repo. ?I may have multiple applications each of which demands network speeds, is there a way to tell git to do this ? I want to do it just for this session, not every time. 
Is there a way to throttle git while it's cloning a repo.?
networking;git;bandwidth
Yes, there's always trickle. Install it, then try something like trickle -sd 50 git clone.-s is for standalone mode, -d is for download limit, in KB/s