Re: With big repos and slower connections, git clone can be hard to work with

> On Monday, July 8, 2024 11:45 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 05:14:33PM +0200, ellie wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>>>> error: RPC failed; curl 92 HTTP/2 stream 5 was not closed cleanly:
>>>>> CANCEL (err 8)
>>>> [...]
>>>>> It seems extremely unlikely to me to be possibly an ISP issue, for
>>>>> which I already listed the reasons. An additional one is HTTPS
>>>>> downloads from github outside of git, e.g. from zip archives, for
>>>>> way larger files work fine as well.
>>>> [...]
>>>> What if you explicitly disable HTTP/2 when cloning?
>> [...]
>>> Thanks for the idea! I tested it:
>>>
>>> $  git -c http.version=HTTP/1.1 clone
>>> https://github.com/maliit/keyboard
>>
>> Over there at SO people are trying all sorts of black magic to combat a
> problem
>> which manifests itself in a way very similar to yours [1]. I'm not sure
> anything from
>> there could be of help but maybe worth trying anyway as you can override
> any (or
>> almost any) Git's configuration setting using that "-c"
>> command-line option, so basically test round-trips should not be
> painstakingly
>> long.
>>
>> [...]
>>> fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
>> [...]
>>> Sadly, it seems like the error is only slightly different.
>>
>> I actually find it interesting that in each case a sideband packet is
> mentioned. But
>> quite possibly it's a red herring anyway.
>>
>> 1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66366582
> 
> I have customers who hit this problem frequently setting up git. It is 99%
> of the time a firewall or proxy configuration issue, not specific to GitHub,
> and changes to those usually resolve the problem. The firewall and proxy can
> be implemented in the ISP's modem if coming from a home network. That is why
> I really think the OP's issue is the network, not something that can
> reasonably fixed in git. I think the network speed is also a potential
> red-herring unless the speed issue relates to the ISP's configuration.
>