fails to git-clone Yelp/kafka-utils with exit code 128

[calvinli]

We encountered the following traceback using this to scan https://github.com/Yelp/kafka-utils:

  File "/code/virtualenv_run/lib/python3.6/site-packages/detect_secrets_server/__main__.py", line 30, in main
    actions.add_repo(args)
  File "/code/virtualenv_run/lib/python3.6/site-packages/detect_secrets_server/actions/initialize.py", line 25, in add_repo
    _clone_and_save_repo(repo)
  File "/code/virtualenv_run/lib/python3.6/site-packages/detect_secrets_server/actions/initialize.py", line 125, in _clone_and_save_repo
    repo.storage.clone()
  File "/code/virtualenv_run/lib/python3.6/site-packages/detect_secrets_server/storage/base.py", line 80, in clone
    self._repo_location,
  File "/code/virtualenv_run/lib/python3.6/site-packages/detect_secrets_server/storage/core/git.py", line 47, in clone_repo_to_location
    ], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 336, in check_output
    **kwargs).stdout
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 418, in run
    output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['git', 'clone', 'https://github.com/Yelp/kafka-utils', '[...truncated...]', '--bare']' returned non-zero exit status 128.

Manual testing showed that the error message from git is:

Cloning into bare repository '[...truncated...]'...
error: RPC failed; curl 18 transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

The issue can be reproduced by running git clone https://github.com/Yelp/kafka-utils some_test_dir/ --bare >./test_stdout 2>&1 (simulating what subprocess.check_output is doing).

We also found that adding --progress makes it work, for unclear reasons:

$ git clone https://github.com/Yelp/kafka-utils some_test_dir/ --bare --progress >./test_stdout 2>&1
$ echo $?
0

Reproduced on git versions 2.16.2, 2.22.0, 2.25.0.