diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index f90a114b021d32..9a8e3365827d30 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -140,6 +140,23 @@ int mingw_open (const char *filename, int oflags, ...)
 	return fd;
 }
 
+#undef write
+ssize_t mingw_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	/*
+	 * While write() calls to a file on a local disk are translated
+	 * into WriteFile() calls with a maximum size of 64KB on Windows
+	 * XP and 256KB on Vista, no such cap is placed on writes to
+	 * files over the network on Windows XP.  Unfortunately, there
+	 * seems to be a limit of 32MB-28KB on X64 and 64MB-32KB on x86;
+	 * bigger writes fail on Windows XP.
+	 * So we cap to a nice 31MB here to avoid write failures over
+	 * the net without changing the number of WriteFile() calls in
+	 * the local case.
+	 */
+	return write(fd, buf, min(count, 31 * 1024 * 1024));
+}
+
 #undef fopen
 FILE *mingw_fopen (const char *filename, const char *otype)
 {
diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index 7c2ab64cb4eb75..0e3e74304138ab 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -170,6 +170,9 @@ int link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);
 int mingw_open (const char *filename, int oflags, ...);
 #define open mingw_open
 
+ssize_t mingw_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
+#define write mingw_write
+
 FILE *mingw_fopen (const char *filename, const char *otype);
 #define fopen mingw_fopen
 
diff --git a/t/t5705-clone-2gb.sh b/t/t5705-clone-2gb.sh
index adfaae8c5b4538..8afbdd4de2146b 100755
--- a/t/t5705-clone-2gb.sh
+++ b/t/t5705-clone-2gb.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
 
 	git config pack.compression 0 &&
 	git config pack.depth 0 &&
-	blobsize=$((20*1024*1024)) &&
+	blobsize=$((100*1024*1024)) &&
 	blobcount=$((2*1024*1024*1024/$blobsize+1)) &&
 	i=1 &&
 	(while test $i -le $blobcount
@@ -36,9 +36,15 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
 
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'clone' '
+test_expect_success 'clone - bare' '
 
-	git clone --bare --no-hardlinks . clone
+	git clone --bare --no-hardlinks . clone-bare
+
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'clone - with worktree, file:// protocol' '
+
+	git clone file://. clone-wt
 
 '