Re: git send-pack: protocol error: bad band #50

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 11, 2013, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20130411183758.GL27070@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <51665D08.3030307@netcabo.pt>

Hello,

João Joyce wrote:

> I am not sure this is the right place to ask this.

You're in the right place.

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> I am trying to push some files to a server with git push. I have
> configured the server to push the files:
>     git remote set-url test ssh://user@location.com:2200/fullpath/
>
> but I am getting the following error:
>     git send-pack: protocol error: bad band #50
>     fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

That means that where git expected to read a binary sideband number, it instead received the byte \x32 (ASCII '2').

Without more details, it's hard to debug this further. Can you get a trace of the communication by setting the envvar GIT_TRACE_PACKET=/tmp/log on the client?

Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan