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bad line length character: fata

Subject: bad line length character: fata

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Michael J Gruber· May 17, 2010, 08:16 UTC · re: Mark Constable · lore

Re: bad line length character: fata

Mark Constable venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2010 09:53:
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> What does this error message indicate when doing a git pull?
> 
> fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: fata
> 
> Git v1.7.1 both ends.

This is funny. Git tries to read a 4 digit (hex) line length according to the git protocol, and what it got from the remote end apparently was a "fatal..." at a place where there usually is no textual error report.

Can you reproduce this and describe the circumstances? For example, what is the transport (ssh, http), what are the surrounding messages, does it happen for every client?

Michael

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