Git push fails with “fatal: early EOF” when PUSHing but only on one file

Question

When I try adding textures and text files to my repo it all works, but when I try adding a .blend file I get this error. I've tried a bunch of things I found here and on google, none of them worked (all were for clone/pull commands)

I'm using Tortoise git 1.7.8 and Git 1.7.10 msysgit - I changed to them after the latest builds failed.

Others have no problem pushing things to the repo, but I did not send them the .blend file.

Here is the output:

Pushing to ssh://git@x.x.x:x/home/git/gitrepo
Counting objects: 4, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3)
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 112.00 KiB | 116 KiB/s
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 113.07 KiB | 116 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
fatal: early EOF
error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
To ssh://git@x.x.x:x/home/git/gitrepo
! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://git@x.x.x:x/home/git/gitrepo'

EDIT: It now seems this is a server problem, since github works. I'll update if I find a solution.

Answer 1

(This answer is a workaround, not a solution.)

I've just had the same problem (can't push my changes anymore using TortoiseGit/msysgit). Since the problem occurs during unpacking, it can be avoided by disabling compression:

1. Context Menu on the folder/TortoiseGit/Settings
2. "Edit local .git/config"
3. Add compression = 0 to the [core] section.

Obviously, disabling compression might affect performance, so use this workaround at your own discretion.

Answer 2

I'm just going to add what worked for me in case someone else stumbles upon this problem.

Execute the following on the command line to make large files work when you get the above error.

git config http.postBuffer 524288000

See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gitlabhq/tNfe2POcY4E.

Answer 3

It's possible that you are overflowing the postbuffer.

The following command fixes the symptom for me:

git config http.postBuffer 524288000

See this related issue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3605544/193785