git push fails: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 411

If you attempt to push a large set of changes to a Git repository with HTTP or HTTPS, you may get an error message such as error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 411. This is caused by a Git configuration default which limits certain HTTP operations to 1 megabyte.

To change this limit run within your local repository

git config http.postBuffer *bytes*

where bytes is the maximum number of bytes permitted. For example:

git config http.postBuffer 524288000

For 500MB (thanks @Hengjie)

You can also do this globally -

git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000

That will allow all local repos to push up to 500MB of data.