The remote end hung up unexpectedly while git cloning

Question

My git client repeatedly fails with the following error after trying to clone the repository for some time.

What could be the issue here?

Answer 1

Obs.: Changing http.postBuffer might also require to set up the Nginx configuration file for gitlab to accept larger body sizes for the client, by tuning the value of client_max_body_size.

However, there is a workaround if you have access to the Gitlab machine or to a machine in its network, and that is by making use of git bundle.

1. go to your git repository on the source machine
2. run git bundle create my-repo.bundle --all
3. transfer (eg., with rsync) the my-repo.bundle file to the destination machine
4. on the destination machine, run git clone my-repo.bundle
5. git remote set-url origin "path/to/your/repo.git"
6. git push

All the best!