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fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET <<<<<

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ASAlan Sargent <alsarg72@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 26, 2011, 04:53 UTC
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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 browser showing Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error. fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET

This is on Ubuntu, git installed fresh or built it from latest stable source. Same on a repo that has stuff in it.

Anyone know why?
Cheers.
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  1. Alan SargentJan 26, 2011
  2. Ilari LiusvaaraJan 26, 2011
  3. Alan SargentJan 26, 2011

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