Visual Studio Failed to clone the remote repository (Early EOF) - GIT

Question

I've recently followed this guide Installing a Git Server using Apache (WebDAV) on Ubuntu Server 12.04 to setup a local Git Server using Apache (WebDAV).

I have pushed my source code to the Git Server through command prompt.

I want to be able to do is pull / push / commit this source code using Visual Studio. From what I have read its appears to be possible. I'm getting the following error message when you try and clone this source code through visual studio:

Error encountered while cloning the remote repository: Early EOF

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Answer 1

For this 2015 question to be resolved in 2017 (for Morgan G), you should use a recent Git HTTP server, with a recent Visual Studio and a recent Git.

That is because:

• https url don't use anymore the old webdav protocol, but the more modern "smart http" and its /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend script. Normally, we no longer use DAV on in an Apache configuration for Git purposes.
• A more recent version of Visual Studio, called "15" switched from libgit2 to Git itself.

• For big Git repo being cloned, you would need (as in here):

  git config --global --add core.compression -1
  git config --global http.postBuffer 1048576000