Github Push Error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 413

Question

stupid issue with Github going on right now. I have a decent amount of changes (~120MB in size), when I attempt to push, this is what happens:

error: RPC fai         


        

Answer 1

The error occurs in 'libcurl', which is the underlying protocol for https upload. Solution is to somehow updgrade libcurl. To get more details about the error, set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1

https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=306348908

Meaning of error, as per libcurl doc: CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR (22)

This is returned if CURLOPT_FAILONERROR is set TRUE and the HTTP server returns an error code that is >= 400.

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html

Answer 2

If you get error 413, then the issue doesn't lie with git but with your web server. It's your web server that is blocking big upload files.

Solution for nginx

Just load your nginx.conf and add client_max_body_size 50m; ( changing the value to your needs ) in the http block.

Reload nginx to accept the new config by executing sudo service nginx reload and try again to push your commit over http.

Solution for Apache

In your httpd.conf add LimitRequestBody 52428800 ( changing the value to your needs ) inside a <Directory /> block. Doing this you can limit the request of the whole server filesystem, just a single Virtual Host or a directory.

I hope this helps.

Answer 3

command to change the remote url ( from https -> git@... ) is something like this

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:GitUserName/GitRepoName.git

origin here is the name of my remote ( do git remote and what comes out is your origin ).

Answer 4

I had the same issue (on Win XP), I updated the libcurl-4.dll file in my Git bin directory to the SSL version from http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?download=curl_DLL_ONLY.7z (renaming to libcurl4.dll). All working ok now.

Answer 5

I got this problem when I try to clone a git repo in Linux machine.

the following URL is working for me in windows

http://swamy@git.swamy.com/scm/project/swamy-main.git

whereas the following URL works in Linux machine and it has https in URL

https://swamy@git.swamy.com/scm/project/swamy-main.git

Answer 6

when I used the https url to push to the remote master, I met the same proble, I changed it to the SSH address, and everything resumed working flawlessly.