Re: Error in 'git clone' via SSH in v2.33.0 (related to commit ae1a7ee)

On Fri, Oct 22 2021, Philipp Eib wrote:

Hi,

Using git-for-windows, I noticed that an SSH git clone of an internal
repo broke for me in git v2.33.0
The exact error is:

fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet/s
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack

Cloning via HTTPS continued to work.
It was also repository-specific as cloning other repositories from the
same (Gitlab) instance via SSH was working fine.

Together with the maintainer we traced the problem back to git commit
ae1a7ee (https://github.com/git/git/commit/ae1a7eefffe60425e6bf6a2065e042ae051cfb6c).
Reverting this commit and rebuilding fixed the issue within git-for-windows.
(You can read the full conversation here:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3444)

Unfortunately I cannot give a reproducible example as the internal
repository cannot be shared.
I have also not tested on linux.

This is probably the same issue as discussed in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/YWX7cd5e5q84CDEv@coredump.intra.peff.net/ (local)