Jenkins Git fetch timeout for node-test-linter

[trivikr]

A Jenkins job failed while fetching from git@github.com:nodejs/node.git:

 > git fetch --no-tags --force --progress -- git@github.com:nodejs/node.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* +refs/pull/63969/head:refs/remotes/origin/_jenkins_local_branch # timeout=9
ERROR: Timeout after 9 minutes
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from git@github.com:nodejs/node.git
	at PluginClassLoader for git//hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:998)
	at PluginClassLoader for git//hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1239)
	at PluginClassLoader for git//hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM._checkout(GitSCM.java:1310)
	at PluginClassLoader for git//hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1277)
	at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:540)
	at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1250)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:649)
	at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:85)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:522)
	at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1842)
	at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:44)
	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:456)
Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git fetch --no-tags --force --progress -- git@github.com:nodejs/node.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* +refs/pull/63969/head:refs/remotes/origin/_jenkins_local_branch" returned status code 128:

https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-linter/65421/console

The failure appears to be a checkout/fetch timeout rather than a build or test failure.
Jenkins terminated git fetch after the configured 9-minute timeout.

Consider retry, increasing the Git checkout timeout, or narrowing the refspec to only the needed PR/head refs?