'oc start-build' and 'docker push' fail with "error: unable to extract binary build input: exit status 1"

Issue

• After authenticating to the registry successfully, oc start-build and docker push are failing with an error:

$ oc start-build redhat-build-name -n namespace-name --from-dir=. --follow

Uploading directory "." as binary input for the build ...
.....
Uploading finished
build.build.openshift.io/redhat-build-name started
Receiving source from STDIN as archive ...
error: unable to extract binary build input, must be a zip, tar, or gzipped tar, or specified as a file: exit status 1