diff --git a/fixtures_git/gitfixture.py b/fixtures_git/gitfixture.py
index b5bc1d5..60bac0a 100644
--- a/fixtures_git/gitfixture.py
+++ b/fixtures_git/gitfixture.py
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ import git
 
 from fixtures_git import utils
 
+try:
+    import urlparse as parse
+except ImportError:
+    from urllib import parse
+
 
 class GitTree(object):
     """Helper class to build a git repository from a graph definition
@@ -284,3 +289,53 @@ class GitFixture(fixtures.Fixture):
         for x in range(num):
             self._create_file_commit(
                 change_id=ids[x], message_prefix=message_prefix)
+
+
+class GitCloneFixture(fixtures.Fixture):
+    def __init__(self, repo_url, username=None, password=None, directory=None):
+        """
+        Setup a fixture with a cloned git repo
+
+        Clones a repo to a temporary directory that is deleted once the
+        fixture is cleaned up.
+
+        To use tokens for cloning from Github private repos for testing,
+        set the username to '' and password to your token and it will
+        reconstruct a suitable URL to use if it doesn't make sense to
+        set the token in the original url passed.
+
+        :param repo_url: Url to repository
+        :param username: Username to use when cloning, set to '' if you wish
+            to do authenticated clones using a token as the password without
+            a user.
+        :param password: Password to use when cloning
+        :param directory: target directory to clone to
+        """
+
+        self.username = username
+        self.password = password
+        self.repo_url = repo_url
+        self.directory = directory
+
+    def _setUp(self):
+        if self.directory is None:
+            self.directory = self.useFixture(fixtures.TempDir()).path
+
+        project = self.repo_url.rstrip('/').split('/')[-1]
+        if project.endswith('.git'):
+            project = project[:-4]
+
+        clone_dir = os.path.join(self.directory, project)
+        if os.path.exists(clone_dir):
+            shutil.rmtree(clone_dir)
+
+        if self.username is not None:
+            url_parts = list(parse.urlparse(self.repo_url))
+            auth = ":".join(filter(None, (self.username, self.password)))
+            netloc = "@".join((auth, url_parts[1]))
+            url_parts[1] = netloc
+            clone_url = parse.urlunparse(url_parts)
+        else:
+            clone_url = self.repo_url
+
+        self.repo = git.Repo.clone_from(url=clone_url, to_path=clone_dir)