Hi, [Cc:ing Peff as the author of the commit identified as the culprit] On Fri, 22 Oct 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 It might be important to note that this is using SSH. > > 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). The `--pretty=reference` format: ae1a7eefffe6 (fetch-pack: signal v2 server that we are done making requests, 2021-05-19). The idea of this patch is apparently to "do a half-duplex shutdown to indicate that they can hang up as soon as the pack is sent". Peff, any ideas what could go wrong here? Thanks, Dscho > 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. > > Regards, > Philipp >