> On Jul 26, 2021, at 22:20, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This suspiously sounds familiar. Asking for "close ssh connection" > in the lore.kernel.org archive finds this: > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/YKTg8nYjSGpKbq8W@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Evan