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Re: Meaning of "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character"?

From
Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date
Jan 22, 2007, 19:55 UTC
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<17845.5805.290668.552757@lisa.zopyra.com>
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On Monday, January 22, 2007 at 11:45:29 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes:
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>Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:
>
>> He has an active update hook in his public repo, to send notices to
>> his collaborators when his work is ready for them to pull, but we
>> looked through it and don't see any printing to stdout.
>
>Just a hunch.
>
>Does the bash start-up sequence for the user emit something to
>stdout?

Not that I can see. I logged into his machine, su root, su - <his id>, and nothing but a prompt came up.

>The attached patch on the local side (i.e. the one that pushes)
>dumps "garbage" you are getting on the line from the remote
>side, to help diagnosing the problem. ...

I have asked the developer to install this and hopefully we'll get some feedback soon.

Thank you.
Bill
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