https://github.com/git/git/commit/ae1a7eefff may have broken git behind a firewall: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013288 I am behind a firewall and using gitproxy: exec socat - socks4:proxy-server-name:$1:$2 I got $ git clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git Cloning into 'gcc'... fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet fatal: early EOF fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output $ Both $ git clone --depth 1 git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git and $ git clone https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git work. $ git -c protocol.version=1 clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git also works. -- H.J.
