Pkg fetching takes very long at 99.9% @ v1.6 (Win 10)

[deszoeke]

Yes, thanks. Deleting the registries as in

Pkg.update in Julia 1.5 uses github

You probably have the General registry as a git repo. Delete it and install it again.

speeds it up so the time is nearly unnoticeable.

I would not have expected this slow git registry download to affect a new install of Julia 1.7.2.