On 07/01/2013 17:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

fwiw there's a note here which relates to Cygwin:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2505644/git-checking-out-problem-fatal-early-eofs

I wonder if it might be worth trying the compression setting to see if
that helps (less than ideal I know)

git config --add core.compression -1

Cheers,

Alex