Git fatal: remote end hung up

Question

So I thought I had finally got everything setup on Windows ... then ran into this issue.

Current setup

URL: ssh://user@host:port/myapp.git

Answer 1

I found out that using ssh.exe from the Git package works every time, as opposed to the ssh that comes with cygwin (the default). Using this exported variable seems to help; it's slower (2x or more) but it's more stable. Take it as another workaround.

$ export GIT_SSH=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Git/bin/ssh.exe

FYI: This version of Msysgit comes with OpenSSH 4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e. [works] Cygwin's SSH is OpenSSH 5.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8n. [doesn't work]

Answer 2

We had same problem and here is solution how we solved the problem:

at first we got:

zajdan@cyberFuture:~$ git clone ssh://nette@19X.16X.14X.7X/~repos/erotika.git/ erotika
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/zajdan/erotika/.git/
Password: 
fatal: '/repos/erotika.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
zajdan@cyberFuture:~$ 

solution:

zajdan@cyberFuture:~$ git clone ssh://nette@19X.16X.14X.7X/~/repos/erotika.git/ erotika

after tilde there must be a slash!

Answer 3

If you want to try the cygwin openssh 5.4p1-1, which does seem to work for this, unlike 5.5 or 5.6, you can use the cygwin time machine mirrors. Start setup.exe with -X and add a mirror Url, such as:

ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2010/05/20/230133

Be careful not to install too much, i.e. base packages, from an older mirror than the rest of your install.

Answer 4

I have exactly the same issue.

I don't use Putty (just Cygwin). I use Windows 7 Ultimate (fully patched as of this moment). I just installed Cygwin yesterday.

I made sure binary mounts were being used.

If I copy a git repo to the machine (via samba mount), I can clone it, but when I "git diff" after the clone, there are a bunch of "different" files with no diffs. After a "git status" there was no output from "git diff". It seems like a newline thing, but I can't figure out how that would be happening. (I have igncr in SHELLOPTS, but removing that doesn't fix it.)

I'm completely stumped.

Answer 5

To correct this issue, run "plink -agent github.com" Press y when prompted to cache the key. Login as git. You'll automatically be disconnected. And it sould work.

Source: http://devlicio.us/blogs/sergio_pereira/archive/2009/05/06/git-ssh-putty-github-unfuddle-the-kitchen-sink.aspx