On (13/04/18 15:03), Johannes Schindelin wrote: > I wonder whether you found a reliable way to trigger this? It would be > nice to have a regression test for this. On my system, it reproduced reliably using Oleg's example [1], below is my bash version of it. Script to generate repository with some history: $ cat example.sh #!/bin/bash git init example cd example git --help > foo.txt for i in $(seq 1 12); do cat foo.txt foo.txt > bar.txt mv bar.txt foo.txt git add foo.txt git commit -m v$i done $ ./example.sh Initialized empty Git repository in C:/git/bug/example/.git/ [master (root-commit) 2e44b4a] v1 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+) create mode 100644 foo.txt [master 9791332] v2 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+) [master 524e672] v3 1 file changed, 168 insertions(+) [master afec6ef] v4 1 file changed, 336 insertions(+) [master 1bcd9cc] v5 1 file changed, 672 insertions(+) [master 2f38a8e] v6 1 file changed, 1344 insertions(+) [master 33382fe] v7 1 file changed, 2688 insertions(+) [master 6c2cbd6] v8 1 file changed, 5376 insertions(+) [master 8d0770f] v9 1 file changed, 10752 insertions(+) [master 517d650] v10 1 file changed, 21504 insertions(+) [master 9e12406] v11 1 file changed, 43008 insertions(+) [master 4c4f600] v12 1 file changed, 86016 insertions(+) Server side: $ git daemon --verbose --reuseaddr --base-path=$(pwd) --export-all [4760] Ready to rumble [696] Connection from 127.0.0.1:2054 [696] unable to set SO_KEEPALIVE on socket: No such file or directory [696] Extended attribute "host": 127.0.0.1 [696] Request upload-pack for '/example' Client side: $ git clone git://127.0.0.1/example Cloning into 'example'... remote: Counting objects: 36, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (24/24), done. fatal: read error: Invalid argument fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed System information: $ git --version --build-options git version 2.17.0.windows.1 cpu: x86_64 built from commit: e7621d891d081acff6acd1f0ba6ae0adce06dd09 sizeof-long: 4 $ cmd.exe /c ver Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.371] Best regards, Kim [1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/304#issuecomment-274266897