Github Push Error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP cod

Question

stupid issue with Github going on right now. I have a decent amount of changes (~120MB in size), when I attempt to push, this is what happens:

error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 413
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly 
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I've already done

git config http.postBuffer 524288000, so that doesn't seem to be the issue. What could it be?

Answer 1

If you are facing this issue while pushing changes in big size then run below command in terminal.

git config --global http.postBuffer 157286400

See this for more details.

Answer 2

Do you use https links instead of ssh links? Because the https link is limited by the size of the upload of HttpServer (such as Apache, Ngnix), there is no such restriction when using ssh.

Use the following method to switch to the ssh link.

1. Open terminal.
2. Switch to your project's working directory.
3. Get the name of the remote repository

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/[user_name]/[project_name].git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/[user_name]/[project_name].git (push)

4. Modify the git address to ssh link.

git remote set-url origin [e-mail]:[user_name]/[project_name].git

If you determine the remote repository name, proceed directly to step 4. Now, you can do the push operation happily.

Answer 3

If you get error 413, then the issue doesn't lie with git but with your web server. It's your web server that is blocking big upload files.

Solution for nginx

Just load your nginx.conf and add client_max_body_size 50m; ( changing the value to your needs ) in the http block.

Reload nginx to accept the new config by executing sudo service nginx reload and try again to push your commit over http.

Solution for Apache

In your httpd.conf add LimitRequestBody 52428800 ( changing the value to your needs ) inside a <Directory /> block. Doing this you can limit the request of the whole server filesystem, just a single Virtual Host or a directory.

I hope this helps.

Answer 4

I got this problem when I try to clone a git repo in Linux machine.

the following URL is working for me in windows

http://[e-mail]/scm/project/swamy-main.git

whereas the following URL works in Linux machine and it has https in URL

https://[e-mail]/scm/project/swamy-main.git

Answer 5

https clone of gists fails (ssh works, see below):

12:00 jean@laptop:~/tmp$ GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone https://gist.github.com/123456.git username
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jean/tmp/username/.git/
* Couldn't find host gist.github.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
* About to connect() to gist.github.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 192.30.252.142... * Connected to gist.github.com (192.30.252.142) port 443 (#0)
* found 141 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
*        server certificate verification OK
*        common name: *.github.com (matched)
*        server certificate expiration date OK
*        server certificate activation date OK
*        certificate public key: RSA
*        certificate version: #3
*        subject: C=US,ST=California,L=San Francisco,O=GitHub\, Inc.,CN=*.github.com
*        start date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT
*        expire date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:00:00 GMT
*        issuer: C=US,O=DigiCert Inc,OU=www.digicert.com,CN=DigiCert High Assurance CA-3
*        compression: NULL
*        cipher: ARCFOUR-128
*        MAC: SHA1
> GET /123456.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.7.1
Host: gist.github.com
Accept: */*
Pragma: no-cache

< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Server: GitHub.com
< Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 05:00:51 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 178
< Location: https://gist.github.com/gist/123456.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
<
* Ignoring the response-body
* Expire cleared
* Connection #0 to host gist.github.com left intact
* Issue another request to this URL: 'https://gist.github.com/gist/123456.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack'
* Couldn't find host gist.github.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
* Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host gist.github.com
* Connected to gist.github.com (192.30.252.142) port 443 (#0)
> GET /gist/123456.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.7.1
Host: gist.github.com
Accept: */*
Pragma: no-cache

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: GitHub.com
< Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 05:00:52 GMT
< Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-advertisement
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
< Pragma: no-cache
< Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
<
* Connection #0 to host gist.github.com left intact
* Couldn't find host gist.github.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
* About to connect() to gist.github.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 192.30.252.142... * connected
* Connected to gist.github.com (192.30.252.142) port 443 (#0)
* found 141 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* SSL re-using session ID
*        server certificate verification OK
*        common name: *.github.com (matched)
*        server certificate expiration date OK
*        server certificate activation date OK
*        certificate public key: RSA
*        certificate version: #3
*        subject: C=US,ST=California,L=San Francisco,O=GitHub\, Inc.,CN=*.github.com
*        start date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT
*        expire date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:00:00 GMT
*        issuer: C=US,O=DigiCert Inc,OU=www.digicert.com,CN=DigiCert High Assurance CA-3
*        compression: NULL
*        cipher: ARCFOUR-128
*        MAC: SHA1
> POST /123456.git/git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.7.1
Host: gist.github.com
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-request
Accept: application/x-git-upload-pack-result
Content-Length: 116

< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Server: GitHub.com
< Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 05:00:53 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 178
< Location: https://gist.github.com/gist/123456.git/git-upload-pack
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
<
* Ignoring the response-body
* Connection #0 to host gist.github.com left intact
* Issue another request to this URL: 'https://gist.github.com/gist/123456.git/git-upload-pack'
* Violate RFC 2616/10.3.2 and switch from POST to GET
* Couldn't find host gist.github.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
* Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host gist.github.com
* Connected to gist.github.com (192.30.252.142) port 443 (#0)
> GET /gist/123456.git/git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.7.1
Host: gist.github.com
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-request
Accept: application/x-git-upload-pack-result

* The requested URL returned error: 400
* Closing connection #0
error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 400

This works: git clone [e-mail]:123456.git

Answer 6

command to change the remote url ( from https -> git@... ) is something like this

git remote set-url origin [e-mail]:GitUserName/GitRepoName.git

origin here is the name of my remote ( do git remote and what comes out is your origin ).