error: waitpid for fetch-pack failed: No child processes

Question

I am getting this error when trying to clone any repository.

cant find much help on this from google.

C:\wamp64\www>git clone https://github.com/codeg8/laravel-crud-generator.git
Cloning into 'laravel-crud-generator'...
remote: Counting objects: 50, done.
remote: Total 50 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 50
Unpacking objects: 100% (50/50), done.
error: waitpid for fetch-pack failed: No child processes

Answer 1

Try running Git application as an Administrator (right click-> Run as Administrator), if its Windows. It worked for me.

Answer 2

Run the Git Bash as admin and clone the directly. I had the same issue and above solution worked for me.