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

This worked for me, setting up Googles nameserver because no standard nameserver was specified, followed by restarting networking:

sudo echo "dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8" >> /etc/network/interfaces && sudo ifdown venet0:0 && sudo ifup venet0:0

Answer 2

If you are using https and you are getting the error.

I used https instead of http and it solved my problem

git config --global https.postBuffer 524288000

Answer 3

I got the same issue, I fixed this with trial and error method. I changed the core.compression value until it works.

I started with "git config --global core.compression 1" after 3 attempts

"git config --global core.compression 4" worked for me.

Answer 4

I had a similar problem, but with a bamboo job. Bamboo was failing doing a local clone (local but over an SSH proxy) of a cached repository, I deleted the cache and after that it worked, but any time it tries to clone from the local cache there is a failure. Seems like a problem with bamboo's version of the SSH proxy not git per se.

Answer 5

Same error with Bitbucket. Fixed by

git config --global http.postBuffer 500M
git config --global http.maxRequestBuffer 100M
git config --global core.compression 0

Answer 6

This solved my problem:

git clone --depth=20 https://repo.git -b master