error: unable to rewind rpc post data

Today I got a very interesting error while pushing my commits to the remote repository.

Username for ‘https://gitlab.com': myusername

Password for ‘https://myusername@gitlab.com': 

Counting objects: 111, done.

Delta compression using up to 8 threads.

Compressing objects: 100% (111/111), done.

Writing objects: 100% (111/111), 4.34 MiB | 411.00 KiB/s, done.

Total 111 (delta 18), reused 0 (delta 0)

error: unable to rewind rpc post data — try increasing http.postBuffer

error: RPC failed; curl 56 GnuTLS recv error (-12): A TLS fatal alert has been received.

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Everything up-to-date

The Solution

Now it was time to find a solution so that I can push my code-

The First Clue

This was the very first time I encountered this error. Without hitting my brain too much, I started reading the error log carefully and thanks to `GIT error log` I immediately got my first clue from error-log while going through this line `try increasing http.postBuffer`.

Google Help

Since now I got a clue that I have to try increasing `http.postBuffer` and I was not knowing how to do this. I took the help of Google Search. I typed `how to increase http.postBuffer` in search box and boom, here was my option. I selected to go with this link from available options.

The final Step

Luckily I got my solution in very first attempt. Now It was time to increase `http.postBuffer`. It was a very simple command-

git config — global http.postBuffer 157286400

One Extra Step

I’ll be always very curious while executing a new command. I realized that the command contains http.postBuffer. I decided to look for Is there anything like https.postBuffer and I was correct according to this link. Finally, I executed one more command with little modification in the above command to avoid any future possibility of the same error-

git config — global http.postBuffer 157286400

Cheers!!! finally, I solved this problem.