如果涉及到大文件的 git 传输， 我们可能会收到下面错误：
sourceTree 的错误。
命令行的错误：
$ git clone https://********/gopher.git
Cloning into 'gopher'...
remote: Counting objects: 275, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (234/234), done.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedlyB | 87.00 KiB/s
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed
网上提到的解决方案有下面几个：
修改 git 的默认 postBuffer 的大小
如果 是需要 post 的文件比较大， 则可通过修改 git 的默认 postBuffer 的大小
linux
$ git config http.postBuffer 524288000
全局的设置则可以是：
$ git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000
windows:
在 .git/config 文件中加入
[http]
postBuffer = 524288000
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_71d4414d0100wfwq.html
分步下载
First, turn off compression:
$ git config --global core.compression 0
Next, let's do a partial clone to truncate the amount of info coming down:
$ git clone --depth 1 <repo_URI>
When that works, go into the new directory and retrieve the rest of the clone:
$ git fetch --unshallow
or, alternately,
$ git fetch --depth=2147483647
Now, do a regular pull:
$ git pull --all
I think there is a glitch with msysgit in the 1.8.x versions that exacerbates these symptoms, so another option is to try with an earlier version of git (<= 1.8.3, I think).
当然 git clone 可以变成下面几步：
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/ghj1976/Documents/work/wangpos/git/gopher/.git/
$ git remote add origin https://******/gopher.git
$ git pull --depth 1
remote: Counting objects: 141, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (114/114), done.
remote: Total 141 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (141/141), 1.68 MiB | 45.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4/4), done.
From https://******/gopher
* [new branch] master -> origin/master
There is no tracking information for the current branch.
Please specify which branch you want to merge with.
See git-pull(1) for details.
git pull <remote> <branch>
If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch> master
这里面的 关键 就是用 –depth 获得最近几次的更新记录。 这个数字可以是任意的int数字。
git clone YOUR_REPO --depth=1
git fetch --depth=10
...
git fetch --depth=100
git fetch --unshallow //Downloads all history allowing to push from repo--depth <depth>
Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in the recent history of a large project with a long history, and would want to send in fixes as patches.
参考资料：
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21277806/fatal-early-eof-fatal-index-pack-failed
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4826639/repack-of-git-repository-fails