fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed

Question

I have googled and found many solutions but none work for me.

I am trying to clone from one machine by connecting to the remote server which is in the LAN network.

Answer 1

Tangentially related and only useful in case you have no root access and manually extract Git from an RPM (with rpm2cpio) or other package (.deb, ..) into a subfolder. Typical use case: you try to use a newer version of Git over the outdated one on a corporate server.

If git clone fails with fatal: index-pack failed without early EOF mention but instead a help message about usage: git index-pack, there is a version mismatch and you need to run git with the --exec-path parameter:

git --exec-path=path/to/subfoldered/git/usr/bin/git clone 

In order to have this happen automatically, specify in your ~/.bashrc:

export GIT_EXEC_PATH=path/to/subfoldered/git/usr/libexec