From: Evan Miller <emmiller@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 03:05:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Exit code 255 after large clone (32-bit PowerPC)
Message-ID: <372227AB-E4CF-42B6-9B08-261037F39B49@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8s1sfqez.fsf@gitster.g>


> On Jul 26, 2021, at 22:20, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> This suspiously sounds familiar.  Asking for "close ssh connection"
> in the lore.kernel.org archive finds this:
> 
>  https://lore.kernel.org/git/YKTg8nYjSGpKbq8W@coredump.intra.peff.net/
> 

The described symptoms match what I am seeing. It makes sense that ancient hardware would bring out the bug – triggering the server timeout with a long local computation.

Switching to protocol 0 successfully works around the issue. This concludes my interest in the error. I suggest reviving a discussion of Jeff King's patch here:

https://lore.kernel.org/git/YKU4mbq%2Fam%2FliAN4@coredump.intra.peff.net/

Evan