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`git clone` fails with `fatal: expected 'packfile'

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by douganger - opened

I’m trying to clone this repo on macOS and Git fails before receiving the packfile:

git clone https://huggingface.co/allenai/Olmo-3.1-32B-Think

Output:

Cloning into 'Olmo-3.1-32B-Think'...
fatal: expected 'packfile'

Environment:

  • macOS: 26.4.1 (25E253)
  • git: 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
  • git-lfs: git-lfs/3.7.1 (GitHub; darwin arm64; go 1.25.3)
  • git-xet: git-xet 0.2.1

I set GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 and found that the clone is failing after a successful HTTP/2 200 response from /git-upload-pack.

The final upload-pack response includes:

HTTP/2 200
content-type: application/x-git-upload-pack-result
content-length: 0

Git then exits with: fatal: expected 'packfile'

From the client trace, it looks like Git is receiving an empty result where it expects the packfile.

Is this repo expected to be cloneable via Git, or should users prefer hf download for this model?

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