git clone fails with "index-pack" failed?

So I created a remote repo that's not bare (because I need redmine to be able to read it), and it's set to be shared with the group (so git init --shared=group). I was able to push to the remote repo and now I'm trying to clone it.

If I clone it over the net I get this:

remote: Counting objects: 4648, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2837/2837), done.
error: git-upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error.B/s  
fatal: git-upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

I'm able to clone it locally without a problem, and I ran "git fsck", which only reports some dangling trees/blobs, which I understand aren't a problem. What could be causing this? I'm still able to pull from it, just not clone. I should note the remote git version is 1.5.6.5 while local is 1.6.0.4

I tried cloning my local copy of the repo, stripping out the .git folder and pushing to a new repo, then cloning the new repo and I get the same error, which leads me to believe it may be a file in the repo that's causing git-upload-pack to fail...

Edit: I have a number of windows binaries in the repo, because I just built the python modules and then stuck them in there so everyone else didn't have to build them as well. If I remove the windows binaries and push to a new repo, I can clone again, perhaps that gives a clue. Trying to narrow down exactly what file is causing the problem now.

Solution 1:

The way I solved this problem is this: My git daemon is running on windows, and clients are on other computers.

I found a workaround (but it will only work on windows).

Start git daemon with verbose from cmd.exe:

"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i -c 'git.exe daemon --verbose  '

Not tested, if it works directly in git bash. Maybe it will.

Then (before starting any clone, pull, fetch,...) select some text in the window (note: "Quick Edit Mode" must be enabled (can be found in: cmd.exe --> Properties (click the top left corner of your cmd window) --> Edit Options)) in which git daemon runs. That will prevent it from printing any further messages in that window.

When the output thread of git daemon is blocked that way, then the error does not happen

Solution 2:

Does "git gc" complain?

Solution 3:

I have the same problem as you; the error message when I clone i:

Cloning into test...
remote: Counting objects: 6503, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4519/4519), done.
Connection to git.myhost.im closed by remote host.| 350 KiB/s
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

In my case, the reason is that my repository size (200M) is larger than my git server's memory (128M). When I clone from the git server, I use command top on my server, which shows that memory usage is soon over 128M.

When I use another server that has 4G memory, the git clone is all okay. You could also try adding more swap space to your sever.