Git fetch hangs on git-upload-pack

git post freeze git-fetch bonobo
Stefano picture Stefano · Dec 12, 2014 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

Seemingly at random, our local repos can no longer fetch from our Bonobo server. It happens with our biggest remote repo (about 4GB) to different people and at different times, when we try to fetch locally. At first it was just every few months, but now it's increasing in frequency and happened to a lot of local repos at the same time today. For now we are solving it by moving a working .git folder around.

It rapidly prints some POST git-upload-pack (gzip X to Y bytes), then hangs for half an hour to an hour.

If I delete a pack file from the objects dir, it complains about missing things then starts fetching correctly, but only for that git-upload-pack.

I've tried repack and gc in various ways to no effect. I tried upgrading git on both server and client from 1.8.4 to 1.9.

cloneing had the same problem, but upgrading Bonobo solved that, even though it was the same version of git. A freshly cloned repo yesterday was working but today it has the same problem.

Of interest may be that we have a lot of dll's and pdb's in it. It's been in use for a year now and was imported from an SVN repo with git-svn.

This is the trace

$ GIT_TRACE=1 git fetch -v
trace: built-in: git 'fetch' '-v'
trace: run_command: 'git-remote-https' 'origin' 'https://xxx
/yyy.git'
trace: run_command: '"C:/Program Files (x86)/GitExtensions/GitCredentialWinStore
/git-credential-winstore.exe" get'
trace: run_command: '"C:/Program Files (x86)/GitExtensions/GitCredentialWinStore
/git-credential-winstore.exe" store'
trace: run_command: 'rev-list' '--objects' '--stdin' '--not' '--all' '--quiet'
trace: run_command: 'fetch-pack' '--stateless-rpc' '--stdin' '--lock-pack' '--in
clude-tag' '--thin' 'https://xxx/yyy.git/'
trace: built-in: git 'fetch-pack' '--stateless-rpc' '--stdin' '--lock-pack' '--i
nclude-tag' '--thin' 'https://xxx/yyy.git/'
POST git-upload-pack (gzip 2057 to 1096 bytes)
POST git-upload-pack (gzip 2307 to 1222 bytes)
POST git-upload-pack (gzip 3657 to 1914 bytes)
POST git-upload-pack (gzip 6207 to 3192 bytes)
POST git-upload-pack (gzip 12607 to 6374 bytes)

Googling shows some people had this problem but nothing mentioned (upgrade bonobo, etc) worked.

Answer

Paul Sweatte picture Paul Sweatte · Jul 28, 2017

git uses curl internally, so use the following config settings to debug:

Client Configuration:

git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000

Client Environment Variables:

  • GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1
  • GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS=16

Server Configuration:

  • increase <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength=[desired size]> in web.config; the size could be 1073741824
  • increase <httpRuntime maxRequestLength=[desired size]> in web.config; try the value 1024000

In addition, the following settings can automatically abort slow transfers:

  • GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME
  • GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT

If the HTTP transfer speed is less than GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT for longer than GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME, the transfer is aborted.

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