HTTPS remote hangs up on push

[liaoarden]

It seems some students have a problem when using credentials to go a git push with an https remote.

Switching to using ssh fixes the problem, but this still seems like a bug.

[liaoarden]

Can't seem to reproduce on my end...

[lanrat]

This seems to happen from time to time, see #3 .

What error is the student receiving?

[liaoarden]

The remote just hangs up on him. The weird thing is that git actually goes ahead and starts the push and runs the GC, but then it hangs up again.

example:

[liaoarden]

It's possible that it has to do with people attempting to push too much data over https. The error above occurred after attempting to push 50 MB

[lanrat]

That looks like it could be the issue ref: http://www.jamescoyle.net/how-to/894-gitlab-error-fatal-the-remote-end-hung-up-unexpectedly and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12651749/git-push-fails-rpc-failed-result-22-http-code-411

It looks like there is a trivial client-side solution, or a module we can enable in nginx to allow it to accept larger http streams.