diff --git a/app/views/projects/import.html.haml b/app/views/projects/import.html.haml
index f883b24fc21..9efb1658c25 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/import.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/import.html.haml
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@
.bs-callout.bs-callout-info
This url must be publicly accessible or you can add a username and password like this: https://username:password@gitlab.com/company/project.git.
%br
- The import will time out after 2 minutes. For big repositories, use a clone/push combination.
+ The import will time out after 4 minutes. For big repositories, use a clone/push combination.
.form-actions
= f.submit 'Retry import', class: "btn btn-create", tabindex: 4
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/backend/shell.rb b/lib/gitlab/backend/shell.rb
index b93800e235f..53bff3037e5 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/backend/shell.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/backend/shell.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ module Gitlab
# import_repository("gitlab/gitlab-ci", "https://github.com/randx/six.git")
#
def import_repository(name, url)
- system "#{gitlab_shell_path}/bin/gitlab-projects", "import-project", "#{name}.git", url
+ system "#{gitlab_shell_path}/bin/gitlab-projects", "import-project", "#{name}.git", url, '240'
end
# Move repository