The remote end hung up unexpectedly while git cloning

Question

My git client repeatedly fails with the following error after trying to clone the repository for some time.

What could be the issue here?

Answer 1

Based on this answer, I tried following (with https url):

1. initial cloning of repo:

git clone --depth 25 url-here

2. fetch commits with increasing twice per try depth:

git fetch --depth 50

git fetch --depth 100

git fetch --depth 200

...and so on

3. eventually (when I think enough is fetched) I run git fetch --unshallow - and it's done.

The process obviously takes much more time, but in my case setting http.postBuffer and core.compression didn't help.

UPD: I found out that fetching via ssh works for any repo size (discovered accidentally), done with git clone , given you have created ssh keys. Once repo is fetched, I change remote address using git remote set-url