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

> Hi Gustaf,
> 
> I had exactly the same problem, which you have described below. We are 
> using MsysGit 1.6.3 and plink on Windows. The solution in our case was 
> to start using OpenSSH (the version from msysgit) instead of PuTTY/plink.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Luben
> 
>> 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.
>