diff --git a/extensions/git/src/commands.ts b/extensions/git/src/commands.ts
index 895a4640e68..8b4a222441b 100644
--- a/extensions/git/src/commands.ts
+++ b/extensions/git/src/commands.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
  *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
-import { Uri, commands, Disposable, window, workspace, QuickPickItem, OutputChannel, Range, WorkspaceEdit, Position, LineChange, SourceControlResourceState, TextDocumentShowOptions, ViewColumn, ProgressLocation, TextEditor, MessageOptions, WorkspaceFolder } from 'vscode';
+import { Uri, commands, Disposable, window, workspace, QuickPickItem, OutputChannel, Range, WorkspaceEdit, Position, LineChange, SourceControlResourceState, TextDocumentShowOptions, ViewColumn, ProgressLocation, TextEditor, MessageOptions, WorkspaceFolder, Progress } from 'vscode';
 import { Git, CommitOptions, Stash, ForcePushMode } from './git';
 import { Repository, Resource, ResourceGroupType } from './repository';
 import { Model } from './model';
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ export class CommandCenter {
 
 			const repositoryPath = await window.withProgress(
 				opts,
-				(_, token) => this.git.clone(url!, parentPath, token)
+				(progress: Progress<{ message?: string, increment: number }>, token) => this.git.clone(url!, parentPath, progress, token)
 			);
 
 			let message = localize('proposeopen', "Would you like to open the cloned repository?");
diff --git a/extensions/git/src/git.ts b/extensions/git/src/git.ts
index 3dcf493277e..e70bd1e0c62 100644
--- a/extensions/git/src/git.ts
+++ b/extensions/git/src/git.ts
@@ -12,10 +12,13 @@ import { EventEmitter } from 'events';
 import iconv = require('iconv-lite');
 import * as filetype from 'file-type';
 import { assign, groupBy, denodeify, IDisposable, toDisposable, dispose, mkdirp, readBytes, detectUnicodeEncoding, Encoding, onceEvent, splitInChunks, Limiter } from './util';
-import { CancellationToken } from 'vscode';
+import { CancellationToken, Progress } from 'vscode';
 import { URI } from 'vscode-uri';
 import { detectEncoding } from './encoding';
 import { Ref, RefType, Branch, Remote, GitErrorCodes, LogOptions, Change, Status } from './api/git';
+import * as nls from 'vscode-nls';
+
+const localize = nls.loadMessageBundle();
 
 // https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/65693
 const MAX_CLI_LENGTH = 30000;
@@ -163,9 +166,10 @@ export interface SpawnOptions extends cp.SpawnOptions {
 	encoding?: string;
 	log?: boolean;
 	cancellationToken?: CancellationToken;
+	progress?: Progress<{ message?: string, increment: number }>;
 }
 
-async function exec(child: cp.ChildProcess, cancellationToken?: CancellationToken): Promise<IExecutionResult<Buffer>> {
+async function exec(child: cp.ChildProcess, cancellationToken?: CancellationToken, progress?: Progress<{ message?: string, increment: number }>): Promise<IExecutionResult<Buffer>> {
 	if (!child.stdout || !child.stderr) {
 		throw new GitError({ message: 'Failed to get stdout or stderr from git process.' });
 	}
@@ -186,6 +190,9 @@ async function exec(child: cp.ChildProcess, cancellationToken?: CancellationToke
 		disposables.push(toDisposable(() => ee.removeListener(name, fn)));
 	};
 
+	const cloneProgressOutput = ['Receiving objects', 'Resolving deltas'];
+	let prevInc = 0;
+
 	let result = Promise.all<any>([
 		new Promise<number>((c, e) => {
 			once(child, 'error', cpErrorHandler(e));
@@ -198,7 +205,27 @@ async function exec(child: cp.ChildProcess, cancellationToken?: CancellationToke
 		}),
 		new Promise<string>(c => {
 			const buffers: Buffer[] = [];
-			on(child.stderr, 'data', (b: Buffer) => buffers.push(b));
+			on(child.stderr, 'data', (b: Buffer) => {
+				buffers.push(b);
+				const s = b.toString();
+
+				// Check for git clone progress reporting
+				cloneProgressOutput.forEach(cloneOutput => {
+					if (s.startsWith(cloneOutput)) {
+						const idx = s.indexOf('%');
+						const inc = parseInt(s.slice(idx - 3, idx));
+
+						if (progress) {
+							progress.report({
+								message: localize(cloneOutput.toLowerCase(), cloneOutput) + ': ' + inc + '%',
+								increment: inc - prevInc
+							});
+
+							prevInc = inc;
+						}
+					}
+				});
+			});
 			once(child.stderr, 'close', () => c(Buffer.concat(buffers).toString('utf8')));
 		})
 	]) as Promise<[number, Buffer, string]>;
@@ -341,7 +368,7 @@ export class Git {
 		return;
 	}
 
-	async clone(url: string, parentPath: string, cancellationToken?: CancellationToken): Promise<string> {
+	async clone(url: string, parentPath: string, progress: Progress<{ message?: string, increment: number }>, cancellationToken?: CancellationToken): Promise<string> {
 		let baseFolderName = decodeURI(url).replace(/[\/]+$/, '').replace(/^.*[\/\\]/, '').replace(/\.git$/, '') || 'repository';
 		let folderName = baseFolderName;
 		let folderPath = path.join(parentPath, folderName);
@@ -355,7 +382,7 @@ export class Git {
 		await mkdirp(parentPath);
 
 		try {
-			await this.exec(parentPath, ['clone', url.includes(' ') ? encodeURI(url) : url, folderPath], { cancellationToken });
+			await this.exec(parentPath, ['clone', url.includes(' ') ? encodeURI(url) : url, folderPath, '--progress'], { cancellationToken, progress });
 		} catch (err) {
 			if (err.stderr) {
 				err.stderr = err.stderr.replace(/^Cloning.+$/m, '').trim();
@@ -405,7 +432,7 @@ export class Git {
 			child.stdin.end(options.input, 'utf8');
 		}
 
-		const bufferResult = await exec(child, options.cancellationToken);
+		const bufferResult = await exec(child, options.cancellationToken, options.progress);
 
 		if (options.log !== false && bufferResult.stderr.length > 0) {
 			this.log(`${bufferResult.stderr}\n`);