I get this error message with git version 1.7.5.GIT:
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character:
Git version 1.4.4.4 works fine.
I have read this was a very old problem, and there were some
fixes, then how come I still get this in the latest version of
Git? All the explanations I could find about this bug don't seem
to apply for my case.
How do bugs in Git get solved? I can't find an issue tracker.
Details:
$ export GIT_TRACE=1
$ export GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1
$ git push
trace: built-in: git 'push'
trace: run_command: 'ssh' 'github' 'git-receive-pack '\''pebbe/Gabmap.git'\'''
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character:
The output above comes immediately. When I run the ssh command
listed above, it takes time before I get a response. So even if
Git does run the command, it doesn't wait for a response from
the server.
Setting GIT_TRACE_PACKET doesn't seem to have any effect.
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.
Running the ssh command as listed by trace works fine:
$ ssh github git-receive-pack 'pebbe/Gabmap.git'
00720444852406fd34c3eb0c8cdcb05cd2af979d2b34 refs/heads/master report-status delete-refs side-band-64k ofs-delta
0000
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Peter Kleiweg
http://pkleiweg.home.xs4all.nl/
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