Git checking out problem [fatal: early EOFs]

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Style picture Style · Mar 24, 2010 · Viewed 20.9k times · Source

I'm running a Ubuntu (9.10) server with Git (latest from Ubuntu package manager) installed. Access to the Git is via SSH. On windows machines, I'm using Cygwin to push/pull code.

I can push my project code onto the server but when I do a clone or pull, it returns a [fatal: early EOFs] error at about 75-80%.

Upon further investigation, it seems like textual data has no issue when pulled/cloned but when the jar files and images are pulled from Git, the error will occur.

Any suggestion/advice that can help to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Mar 24, 2010

What is the Git version are you using (Ubuntu 9.10 packages mentions 1.6.3)

A recent thread reported a similar issue with Git1.7.1, although it was from a Cygwin environment.

$ git clone git:/repo/git/acl acl.test
  Initialized empty Git repository in /c/tmp/acl.test/.git/
  remote: Counting objects: 9205, done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3300/3300), done.
  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
  fatal: early EOFs:  62% (5708/9205)
  fatal: index-pack failed

Did you try downgrade your Git (on the server side and/or the client side) and see if the problem persists?

As the OP Style reports in the comments, the message can also be trigger by an incorrect protocol:

git+ssh://

instead of just:

ssh:// + git command

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