Re: fetch-pack Unexpected disconnect issues in 2.47

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 05:16:16AM +0000, Gibbons, Jason wrote:
> Hello
>
> Not sure if this has already been reported, but we have noticed that
> for a large github repository with lfs enabled, we are seeing the
> following errors on fetch:
>
> Connection to github.com closed by remote host.
>
> 03:42:26 fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
> 03:42:26 fatal: early EOF
> 03:42:26 fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
>
> When we revert the git client from 2.47 to 2.46 on the fetching host,
> the problem vanishes, and this is systematic both across CI build/test
> infrastructure and development PCs.
>
> For the moment we are just rolling back to 2.46 across our infra, but
> this can be only a short-term solution of course.

If you are using Git for Windows, I believe that there is a known issue
[1] which was patched in the MSYS2 runtime used by GfW [2].

It does not appear to be released as part of a tagged version of Git for
Windows yet, although from reading [1] it appears to be planned soon. In
the meantime, you should be able to work around the issue by using a
snapshot of Git for Windows.

Thanks,
Taylor

[1]: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5199
[2]: https://github.com/git-for-windows/msys2-runtime/pull/75