RPC failed; result=28, HTTP code = 0

Question

I\'m trying to push my code into github, but almost everytime I meet this error

error: RPC failed; result=28, HTTP code = 0
fatal: The remote end hung up un         


        

Answer 1

That error code is a timeout error on the client. Although I suspect that the server-side is closing as the message suggests. To try and get more information you could try setting the environment variable GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 for your push eg:

GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git push origin

This can give you an indication of whether it is the client timing out or the server disconnecting that is the original error. There are a number of things you might do to ensure that you're not always coming across this error.

1. Check the timeouts on the server side, if you can control it. They may be too small. This depends on the server implementation.
2. Check your repository for large files particularly binary files. These can be handled differently.
3. Ensure you aren't setting http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime inadvertently: they should be off by default (by looking at the code).

Large Repository

For point 2. There are a number of things you can do if you suspect that the pack you are pushing is large objects. This blog post is quite detailed on the subject:

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/05/handle-big-repositories-git/

I don't think the http.postBuffer is really a solution here.