Github - unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet

First of all, check your network connection stability.

If there is no problem with network connection try another solution; it may work:

On Linux

Execute the following in the command line before executing the Git command:

export GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1export GIT_TRACE=1export GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1

On Windows

Execute the following in the command line before executing the Git command:

set GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1set GIT_TRACE=1set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1

In addition:

git config --global core.compression 0git clone --depth 1 <repo_URI># cd to your newly created directorygit fetch --unshallow git pull --all

In my case I got this error with the first commit to a new repo.

I just deleted the .git folder and then added a few files at a time, committing with each addition.

I managed to add everything back, without running into the same error.

In my case, I had a few files that were over 100MB in size when trying to push my initial commit. Since GitHub apparently doesn't allow this, you get an error "unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly".

Using git rm was not enough, I had to start all over again with git init, git add, git commit and git push to resolve the issue.