Git fails when pushing commit to github

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I cloned a git repo that I have hosted on github to my laptop   I was able to successfully push a couple of commits to github without problem   However  now I get the following error    Compressing objects  100   792 792   done  error  RPC failed  result 22  HTTP code   411 Writing objects  100   1148 1148   18 79 MiB   13 81 MiB s  done  Total 1148  delta 356   reused 944  delta 214    From here it just hangs and I finally have to CTRL   C back to the terminal

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Looks like a server issue  i e  a  GitHub  issue   If you look at this thread  it can happen when the git-http-backend gets a corrupted heap  and since they just put in place  a smart http support     But whatever the actual cause is  it may also be related with recent sporadic disruption in one of the GitHub fileserver   Do you still see this error message  Because if you do    check your local Git version  and upgrade to the latest one  report this as a GitHub bug      Note  the Smart HTTP Support is a big deal for those of us behind an authenticated-based enterprise firewall proxy      From now on  if you clone a repository over the http    url and you are using a Git client version 1 6 6 or greater  Git will automatically use the newer  better transport mechanism    Even more amazing  however  is that you can now push over that protocol and clone private repositories as well  If you access a private repository  or you are a collaborator and want push access  you can put your username in the URL and Git will prompt you for the password when you try to access it       Older clients will also fall back to the older  less efficient way  so nothing should break - just newer clients should work better    So again  make sure to upgrade your Git client first

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I tried to push to my own hosted bonobo-git server  and did not realise  that the http postbuffer meant the project directory      so just for other confused ones    why  In my case  I had large zip files with assets and some PSDs pushed as well - to big for the buffer I guess   How to do this http postbuffer  execute that command within your project src directory  next to the  git folder  not on the server    be aware  large temp  chunk  files will be created of that buffer size   Note  Just check your largest files  then set the buffer

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in these cases you can try ssh if https is stuck   Also you can try increasing the buffer size to an astronomical figure so that you dont have to worry about the buffer size any more git config http postBuffer 100000000

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The Problem to push mostly is because of the size of the files that need to be pushed  I was trying to push some libraries of just size 2 mb  then too the push was giving error of RPC with result 7  The line is of 4 mbps and is working fine  Some subsequent tries to the push got me success  If such error comes  wait for few minutes and keep on trying   I also found out that there are some RPC failures if the github is down or is getting unstable network at their side    So keeping up trying after some intervals is the only option

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If this command not help      git config http postBuffer 524288000   Try to change ssh  method to https  git remote -v git remote rm origin  git remote add origin https   github com username project git

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I had the same issue and believe that it has to do with the size of the repo  edited- or the size of a particular file  you are trying to push  Basically I was able to create new repos and push them to github  But an existing one would not work  The HTTP error code seems to back me up it is a  Length Required  error  So maybe it is too large to calc or greated that the max  Who knows  EDIT  I found that the problem may be files that are large  I had one update that would not push even though I had successful pushes up to that point  There was only one file in the commit but it happened to be 1 6M So I added the following config change git config http postBuffer 524288000  To allow up to the file size 500M and then my push worked  It may have been that this was the problem initially with pushing a big repo over the http protocol   END EDIT the way I could get it to work  EDIT before I modified postBuffer  was to tar up my repo  copy it to a machine that can do git over ssh  and push it to github  Then when you try to do a push pull from the original server it should work over https   since it is a much smaller amount of data than an original push

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