From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:55:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Meaning of "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character"?
Message-ID: <17845.5805.290668.552757@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7nusv52.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Monday, January 22, 2007 at 11:45:29 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes:
>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