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

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 20, 2007, 20:20 UTC
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<7vbqkt78n7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:
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> We are using git 1.4.4.1, the latest I thought available, not 1.4.4.4
> (perhaps you mis-typed?).
>
> In any case, I personally would love to try the latest build of git,
> but I don't think I can convince the rest of the company to do so.
>
> I just got an email from one of the developers.  He seems to think
> this is alleviated by using bash instead of tcsh.

Heh, you'll never know what you would get until you ask. I temporarily run chsh on myself to use tcsh as my login shell, and sure enough I am getting the error.

fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: 75 70 64 61

It reads "u p d a"; most likely the command name we are running, which is "update". I think it is spitting out an error message or something silly like that saying "update hook is not executable". Let me dig a bit further and report later.

This is with my previous patch; you do not have to update to 1.5.0-rc1 -- it would not fix anything in this area.

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  1. Bill LearJan 20, 2007
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  4. Bill LearJan 20, 2007
  5. Jakub NarebskiJan 20, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2007
  8. Shawn O. PearceJan 20, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 22, 2007
  10. Bill LearJan 22, 2007
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