# [BUG] git clone -q ends with early EOF 6 messages from 2013-09-18 to 2013-09-20. Participants: Marek Vasut, Junio C Hamano, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/34957 ## Marek Vasut, 2013-09-18 12:44 Subject: [BUG] git clone -q ends with early EOF Message-ID: <201309181444.19070.marex@denx.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/201309181444.19070.marex%40denx.de ``` Hello, I am trying to clone a repository and I am getting the following output: $ git clone -q git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed The "fatal:" lines usually appear a few minutes after running the clone. Of course, the clone does not finish successfully. Interestingly, when I drop the '-q' option from the git clone commandline, the clone finishes correctly. My git version is: $ git --version git version 1.8.4.rc3 Is this a known issue? Thank you! Best regards, Marek Vasut ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2013-09-18 16:03 Subject: Re: [BUG] git clone -q ends with early EOF Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqzjraunfx.fsf%40gitster.dls.corp.google.com In-Reply-To: <201309181444.19070.marex@denx.de> ``` This sounds suspiciously like 05e95155 (upload-pack: send keepalive packets during pack computation, 2013-09-08) that is cooking in 'next'. If you are talking with other people's server side, you are SOL until the server end gets the patch. ``` ## Jeff King, 2013-09-18 18:14 Subject: Re: [BUG] git clone -q ends with early EOF Message-ID: <20130918181443.GA18821@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20130918181443.GA18821%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <201309181444.19070.marex@denx.de> ``` On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:44:18PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > I am trying to clone a repository and I am getting the following output: > > $ git clone -q git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > fatal: early EOF > fatal: index-pack failed > > The "fatal:" lines usually appear a few minutes after running the clone. Of > course, the clone does not finish successfully. Interestingly, when I drop the > '-q' option from the git clone commandline, the clone finishes correctly. As Junio mentioned, this does seem like the issue that 05e9515 (upload-pack: send keepalive packets during pack computation, 2013-09-08) tries to fix. The server is quiet for a long period while preparing the pack, and something in the network stack thinks the connection has timed out and kills it. One way you can check this is by running: time git clone -q git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git If it's a network timeout, it will die consistently at some nice round number. In this case, I just ran that command twice, and it died both times at just a hair over 2 minutes. So that is probably what is going on. There's no proxy on my end, so presumably there is some front-end reverse proxying happening on the server end, and it has a 2-minute timeout. The keepalive patch is not in any released version yet, but we have been running it in production at GitHub for a few weeks. You may want to file a support request with the Ubuntu folks asking to pick up the patch, or to increase the timeouts on their proxies. -Peff ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2013-09-18 19:50 Subject: Re: [BUG] git clone -q ends with early EOF Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqa9j9vriv.fsf%40gitster.dls.corp.google.com In-Reply-To: <20130918181443.GA18821@sigill.intra.peff.net> ``` Jeff King writes: > The keepalive patch is not in any released version yet, but we have been > running it in production at GitHub for a few weeks. That is good to hear; I'd feel safer to bump the scheduled graduation date to 'master' for the topic in that case. Like tomorrow ;-) ``` ## Marek Vasut, 2013-09-18 20:55 Subject: Re: [BUG] git clone -q ends with early EOF Message-ID: <201309182255.41763.marex@denx.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/201309182255.41763.marex%40denx.de In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, > Jeff King writes: > > The keepalive patch is not in any released version yet, but we have been > > running it in production at GitHub for a few weeks. > > That is good to hear; I'd feel safer to bump the scheduled > graduation date to 'master' for the topic in that case. > > Like tomorrow ;-) Thanks for explaining guys, I will try to poke the canonical guys with reference to this thread. Best regards, Marek Vasut ``` ## Marek Vasut, 2013-09-20 13:58 Subject: Re: [BUG] git clone -q ends with early EOF Message-ID: <201309201558.41901.marex@denx.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/201309201558.41901.marex%40denx.de In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, > Jeff King writes: > > The keepalive patch is not in any released version yet, but we have been > > running it in production at GitHub for a few weeks. > > That is good to hear; I'd feel safer to bump the scheduled > graduation date to 'master' for the topic in that case. > > Like tomorrow ;-) I reported the issue on Ubuntu Lunchpad here [1], so I hope they will eventually fix it. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/+bug/1228148 Best regards, Marek Vasut ```