Re: Exit code 255 after large clone (32-bit PowerPC)
From: Evan Miller <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-27 03:05:31
On Jul 26, 2021, at 22:20, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote: This suspiously sounds familiar. Asking for "close ssh connection" in the lore.kernel.org archive finds this: https://lore.kernel.org/git/YKTg8nYjSGpKbq8W@coredump.intra.peff.net/ (local)
The described symptoms match what I am seeing. It makes sense that ancient hardware would bring out the bug – triggering the server timeout with a long local computation. Switching to protocol 0 successfully works around the issue. This concludes my interest in the error. I suggest reviving a discussion of Jeff King's patch here: https://lore.kernel.org/git/YKU4mbq%2Fam%2FliAN4@coredump.intra.peff.net/ (local) Evan