When I tried to clone a decently-huge git repository I got the error below. The most common issue is that the connection closes and the whole clone is cancelled.
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Cloning into 'large-repository'... remote: Counting objects: 20248, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10204/10204), done. error: RPC failed; curl 18 transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed |
After a lot of trial and errors and a lot of “remote end hung up unexpectedly” I have a way that works for me. The idea is to do a shallow clone first and then update the repository with its history.
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$ git clone http://github.com/large-repository --depth 3 $ cd large-repository $ git fetch --unshallow |
Good luck!
