diff --git a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/models/interface.go b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/models/interface.go
index cd176f3b59b..0a228de8341 100644
--- a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/models/interface.go
+++ b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/models/interface.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 type Store interface {
+	SetIncrementalMode(bool)
 	RepoCommits(repoCommit *code.RepoCommit) errors.Error
 	Commits(commit *code.Commit) errors.Error
 	Refs(ref *code.Ref) errors.Error
diff --git a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/parser/clone_gitcli.go b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/parser/clone_gitcli.go
index 69883bf1741..9f2ca7ad528 100644
--- a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/parser/clone_gitcli.go
+++ b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/parser/clone_gitcli.go
@@ -56,6 +56,17 @@ type CloneRepoConfig struct {
 	NoShallowClone  bool
 }
 
+func (g *GitcliCloner) IsIncremental() bool {
+	if g != nil && g.stateManager != nil {
+		if g.stateManager.GetSince() != nil {
+			return true
+		}
+		return g.stateManager.IsIncremental()
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
+
 func (g *GitcliCloner) CloneRepo(ctx plugin.SubTaskContext, localDir string) errors.Error {
 	taskData := ctx.GetData().(*GitExtractorTaskData)
 	var since *time.Time
@@ -75,6 +86,7 @@ func (g *GitcliCloner) CloneRepo(ctx plugin.SubTaskContext, localDir string) err
 		}
 		g.stateManager = stateManager
 		since = stateManager.GetSince()
+
 	}
 
 	cmd, err := g.buildCloneCommand(ctx, localDir, since)
diff --git a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/parser/taskdata.go b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/parser/taskdata.go
index 4b3ab01722c..1b22c98855e 100644
--- a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/parser/taskdata.go
+++ b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/parser/taskdata.go
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ type GitExtractorTaskData struct {
 	Options         *GitExtractorOptions
 	ParsedURL       *url.URL
 	GitRepo         RepoCollector
-	SkipAllSubtasks bool // siliently skip all tasks without raising error
+	SkipAllSubtasks bool // silently skip all tasks without raising errors
 }
 
 type GitExtractorApiParams struct {
diff --git a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/store/csv.go b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/store/csv.go
index 8701501c5c8..982485aea6e 100644
--- a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/store/csv.go
+++ b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/store/csv.go
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ func NewCsvStore(dir string) (*CsvStore, errors.Error) {
 	return s, nil
 }
 
+func (c *CsvStore) SetIncrementalMode(incrementalMode bool) {
+}
+
 func (c *CsvStore) RepoCommits(repoCommit *code.RepoCommit) errors.Error {
 	return c.repoCommitWriter.Write(repoCommit)
 }
diff --git a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/store/database.go b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/store/database.go
index 5e03359f87e..c795179ec1f 100644
--- a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/store/database.go
+++ b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/store/database.go
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ type Database struct {
 }
 
 func NewDatabase(basicRes context.BasicRes, repoId string) *Database {
+
 	database := &Database{
 		table:  "gitextractor",
 		params: repoId,
@@ -56,6 +57,10 @@ func (d *Database) updateRawDataFields(rawData *common.RawDataOrigin) {
 	rawData.RawDataParams = d.params
 }
 
+func (d *Database) SetIncrementalMode(incrementalMode bool) {
+	d.driver.SetIncrementalMode(incrementalMode)
+}
+
 func (d *Database) RepoCommits(repoCommit *code.RepoCommit) errors.Error {
 	batch, err := d.driver.ForType(reflect.TypeOf(repoCommit))
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/tasks/repo_cloner.go b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/tasks/repo_cloner.go
index a00b447b32f..45eff7bbac5 100644
--- a/backend/plugins/gitextractor/tasks/repo_cloner.go
+++ b/backend/plugins/gitextractor/tasks/repo_cloner.go
@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ func CloneGitRepo(subTaskCtx plugin.SubTaskContext) errors.Error {
 		}
 		return err
 	}
-
+	if repoCloner.IsIncremental() {
+		storage.SetIncrementalMode(repoCloner.IsIncremental())
+	}
 	// We have done comparison experiments for git2go and go-git, and the results show that git2go has better performance.
 	var repoCollector parser.RepoCollector
 	if *taskData.Options.UseGoGit {