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From: Gabriel Burca <gburca-gmane@ebixio.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error when cloning gc'ed repository
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:15:49 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20100525T230522-721@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hj9tr4$5vi$1@ger.gmane.org

Andre Loker <loker <at> gmx.de> writes:

> 
> Andre Loker wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > $ git clone git <at> theserver:the/repository.git
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /e/Temp/dr/.git/
> > remote: Counting objects: 1396, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (654/654), done.
> > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> > fatal: early EOFs:  47% (657/1396)
> > fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> To answer the question myself: it seems that it is a problem with 
> openssh under cygwin 1.7.1. I found a similar problem here:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin <at> cygwin.com/msg103749.html
> 
> The proposed workaround is to use plink instead of openssh. I tried it 
> and so far it seems to work. It's not as nice as openssh, but at least 
> it's a workaround until the issue is solved.


I downgraded just the openssh package in cygwin from 5.5p1-1 to 5.4p1-1 and the
problem went away. This was easier than switching to putty/plink.

Before the downgrade my rate of failure was 100%. I was doing a "git remote
update origin", not a clone, but the symptoms were the same as Andre's.

-- 
Gabriel Burca

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-26  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-20 10:45 Error when cloning gc'ed repository Andre Loker
2010-01-21 16:02 ` Andre Loker
2010-05-25 21:15   ` Gabriel Burca [this message]

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