cannot push tag on shallow clone

[NahumLitvin]

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.28.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 77982caf269b7ee713a76da2bcf260c34d3bf7a7
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ cmd.exe /c ver
WIndows Server 2016 Datacenter 
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
Editor Option: VIM
Custom Editor Path:
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Git Pull Behavior Option: Merge
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled
Enable Pseudo Console Support: Disabled

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

** insert your response here **

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

cmd/Powershell/gitpython

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

git clone  git://gitserver.company.corp/repo.git --depth 1
git tag my_new_tag
git push --tags

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

tag pushed to remote

• What actually happened instead?

fatal: sha1 file '<stdout>' write error: Invalid argument
error: failed to push some refs to 'git://gitserver.company.corp/repo.git'

this works on my linux machines with no problem
tried on a few repos with git 2.6.3 and 2.28.0 with no avail.

[dscho]

Are you sure that those git:// repositories are push-enabled? I ask because git:// has no authentication nor encryption, and is therefore by default disallowing pushes.

[NahumLitvin]

@dscho yes, i'm 100% sure. those commands work on linux/mac flawlessly.
this is an internal machine that requires no authentication.

[dscho]

Maybe you need to set sendpack.sideband=false as described here?

[NahumLitvin]

first of big thanks for your help.
I am aware of this issue and all our servers have this flag set by default
ran git config --global sendpack.sideband
just to be sure
on all the servers and it IS set to false.

[dscho]

@NahumLitvin this setting needs to be configured on the client-side AFAICT.

[NahumLitvin]

@dscho that is so. it is set to false on all machines with git client.

[dscho]

Closing as stale.