Re: old but persistent problem: bad line length character

From: Peter Kleiweg <pkleiweg@xs4all.nl>
Date: Jun 7, 2011, 22:32 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1106072337500.11389@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20110607180624.GA23752@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King schreef op de 7e dag van de zomermaand van het jaar 2011:

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> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 06:33:07PM +0200, Peter Kleiweg wrote:
> 
> > How do bugs in Git get solved? I can't find an issue tracker. 
> 
> You send an email to the mailing list and people work on it. :)

Is that git@vger.kernel.org ?

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> > I added some debug code in pkt-line.c, function 
> > packet_read_line(). This tells me that 'buffer' that is passed 
> > to packet_read_line() contains nothing but null characters, 
> > while 'size' is set to 1000.
> 
> Yeah, it's expecting data to be written into it. You need to see what
> packet_read_line reads into linelen via safe_read (which is also printed
> in the error message, so it looks from the above like it contains NULs).

I made it read some more than 4 bytes. And this is what I get:

{27}]0;github git-receive-pack 'pebbe/Gabmap.git'{7}

Ah, I see! I have a wrapper set-up around ssh that sets the window title of the shell to the ssh command argument. That is what messes things up!

OK. Fixed now.

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Peter Kleiweg
http://pkleiweg.home.xs4all.nl/