From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:20:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Meaning of "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character"?
Message-ID: <7vbqkt78n7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <17842.29542.229557.460473@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:

> 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.