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

From
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date
Jan 23, 2007, 00:14 UTC
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<45B5535E.2000808@xs4all.nl>
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Junio C Hamano escreveu:
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> I've seen this "bad line length character" mentioned in #git and
> on this list but nobody seems to have hunted down what this is.
> 
> 	http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0603/17807.html
> 
> is another (Google finds some others for the error message on
> xcb list but that is about fetch-pack which is totally different
> codepath).

if you need another example where this is happening, the anongit repo for lilypond seems to have gotten in this state as well,

[hanwen@haring tmp]$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/lilypond/.git/ fatal: protocol error: bad line length character fetch-pack from 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git' failed.

pushing/pulling over ssh+git and http still work.
  
(git 1.5.0rc2, not sure what git.sv.gnu.org is running)
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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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