.. title: Git in cygwin: fatal: early EOFs .. slug: gitincygwin .. date: 2011-01-09 17:19:03 .. tags: dev

I was having a hard time with "fatal: early EOFs" messages when doing a git fetch in my cygwin session on my Windows dev box. Found good solution at stackoverflow: run the following:

% git config --add core.compression -1

That fixed it for me. Writing a blog entry about it so I have this fix forever.