Re: fatal: unexpected EOF

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> Lately I've been receiving this error frequently from git.kernel.org:
> 
> Fetching pack (head and objects)...
> fatal: unexpected EOF
> cg-fetch: fetching pack failed
> 
> What is causing this?

Almost any error will cause the pack sending to abort, and the git:// 
protocol only opens a single socket for data, so there is no way for the 
other end to say _what_ failed.

With git.kernel.org, I suspect the reason for the failure is almost always 
the same, though: the mirroring is not complete, so it doesn't have all 
object files. The mirroring from master.kernel.org to the actual public 
machines is just a rsync script, so there's no atomicity guarantees.

That said, it might be a load issue too - I don't know what limits 
Peter & co put on the git daemons, and it might also be that it's set up 
to accept at most <n> connections and will close anything else.

		Linus