From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:59:55 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET <<<<<
Message-ID: <20110126055955.GA13304@LK-Perkele-VI.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimDbHdOwkPu6qihdgJFY0bS0XTVatLCriCmM1nX@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:53:11PM +0800, Alan Sargent wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character" seems fairly
> common, but in the archive and the faq there isn't reference to this
> particular instances - GET.
> 
> alan@toaster:~$ git init myrepo
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/nev/myrepo/.git/
> alan@toaster:~$ cd myrepo
> alan@toaster:~/myrepo$ git daemon
> fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET  << just hitting
> F5 in the browser
> fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET
[...]

Git daemon serves git:// protocol, not HTTP, you can't access it from
web browser.

If you are looking for Git repository web interface, look at gitweb
or cgit.

The error is because HTTP begins the request with "GET " and git
daemon is trying to interpret that as length of packet, failing
and spitting out a fatal error.

-Ilari