"stream ended unexpectedly" on clone

Question

I try to clone but I get a rollback. I could clone at another computer previously but now I get a rollback and I don't know why:

C:\Users\Niklas\montao>hg clone https://[email protected]/niklasr/montao
http authorization required
realm: Bitbucket.org HTTP
user: niklasr
password:
destination directory: montao
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: connection ended unexpectedly

C:\Users\Niklas\montao>

Currently I'm just trying to do it over again but I suspect that it wil ltime out, can you tell me how to debug more what's happening and possibly resolve the issue? I ran it in debug mode and this is what happens.

adding google_appengine/lib/django_1_3/django/contrib/localflavor/locale/mn/LC_M
ESSAGES/django.mo revisions
files: 10223/50722 chunks (20.15%)
transaction abort!

Answer 1

Your TCP connection to bitbucket is dying before the whole repo is downloaded -- probably a flaky net connection or a full disk. If it's the former you can do it in small chunks using -r like this:

hg init montao
cd montao
hg pull -r 50 https://[email protected]/niklasr/montao  # get the first 50 changesets
hg pull -r 100 https://[email protected]/niklasr/montao  # get the next 50 changesets
...

That should only be necessary if something's wrong with your network route to bitbucket or the repository is incredibly huge.

Answer 2

An easier syntax compared to Ry4an Brase's answer:

hg clone -r 1 https://[email protected]/niklasr/montao  # get the first 1 changeset
cd montao
hg pull -r 50    # first 50 changesets
hg pull -r 100   # first 100 changesets
...
hg pull          # all remaining changesets
hg update        # create working copy

Answer 3

If you're using TortoiseHg Workbench, I found checking "Use compressed transfer" under Options in the Clone dialog worked for me.