Ah! Thank you very much. :) On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:53:11PM +0800, Alan Sargent wrote: >> 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 > [...] > > Git daemon serves git:// protocol, not HTTP, you can't access it from > web browser. > > If you are looking for Git repository web interface, look at gitweb > or cgit. > > The error is because HTTP begins the request with "GET " and git > daemon is trying to interpret that as length of packet, failing > and spitting out a fatal error. > > -Ilari > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html