Re: Preemptive EOF when pushing (using Msys git and PuTTY)

> Hello everyone, and thanks for all your dedicated work with git.
> 
> I have used git for quite some time now, mainly on different Linux
> platforms, without any problems.  Recently we convert the office's pet
> project from svn to git.  Many people at the office use Windows (Msys
> git 1.6.2 and plink), and I have stared to see (only from Windows
> people) problems when pushing similar to the following:
> 
> Counting objects: 422, done.
> Compressing objects: 422, done.
> Writing objects: 100% (379/379), 77.77 KiB, done.
> Total 379 (delta 310), reused 371 (delta 303)
> fatal: early EOF
> error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit
> To jkoehler <at> serv-4100:/git/argos.git
>  ![remote rejected] jk/ellipseFit -> jk/ellipseFit (n/a (unpacker error))
> error: failed to push some refs to
> 'jkoehler <at> serv-4100:/git/argos.git'
> 
> There seems to be no problem with the repo, neither local nor remote,
> but for a specific setup the problem is reproducible on several Windows
> machines, but if I move the whole local repo to a Linux machine instead
> the problem is gone.
> 
> I suspect the problem is that a ^Z EOF gets embedded in the pack to be
> transported, and that somehow interacts poorly with PuTTY, but that is
> just my guessing.  And if so I don't know how to handle it.
> 
> Has anyone experienced anything similar?  If so, is there any simple fix
> to the problem?  How would I go about to try to debug this?
> Unfortunately, this seems to happen on a regular basis and affects the
> git experience in a negative way, so I would be really happy to be able
> to resolve the problem.
> 
> I'm thankful for any help that I can get.