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

It's confusing because Git logs may suggest any connection or ssh authorization errors, eg: ssh_dispatch_run_fatal: Connection to x.x.x.x port yy: message authentication code incorrect, the remote end hung up unexpectedly, early EOF.

Server-side solution

Let's optimize git repository on the server side:

1. Enter to my server's git bare repository.
2. Call git gc.
3. Call git repack -A

Eg:

ssh admin@my_server_url.com
sudo su git
cd /home/git/my_repo_name # where my server's bare repository exists.
git gc
git repack -A

Now I am able clone this repository without errors, e.g. on the client side:

git clone git@my_server_url.com:my_repo_name

The command git gc may be called at the git client side to avoid similar git push problem.

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If you are an administrator of Gitlab service - trigger Housekeeping manually. It calls internally git gc or git repack.

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Client-side solution

Other (hack, client-side only) solution is downloading last master without history:

git clone --single-branch --depth=1 git@my_server_url.com:my_repo_name

There is a chance that buffer overflow will not occur.