Following my previous question about a way to clear 'hidden' large files in gitlab repo. I proceeded as follows:

Clone repo using mirror flag:

$ git clone --mirror git://example.com/my-large-repo.git 

Run the BFG to clean my repository:

$ java -jar bfg.jar --strip-blobs-bigger-than 50M my-large-repo.git

$ cd my-large-repo.git
$ git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive
Enumerating objects: 1306, done.
Counting objects: 100% (1306/1306), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (1238/1238), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1306/1306), done.
Building bitmaps: 100% (53/53), done.
Total 1306 (delta 242), reused 961 (delta 0), pack-reused 0

Everything seems to work at this point, but then I cannot push the clean local to remote.

$ git push
Username for 'https://gitlab.com': [email protected]
Password for 'https://[email protected]@gitlab.com': 
Enumerating objects: 1306, done.
Writing objects: 100% (1306/1306), 2.02 GiB | 16.76 MiB/s, done.
Total 1306 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1306
error: RPC failed; HTTP 524 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 524
send-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
Everything up-to-date

I am not sure why this keeps happening.

CodePudding user response：

The HTTP 524 status code is specific to Cloudflare. It indicates that a timeout occurred. Like other 5xx codes, it indicates a problem with the server that the client cannot control. Thus, there is nothing you can do to fix this.

You can either try again later, or contact GitLab about the problem.