From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Subject: Re: Meaning of "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character"? Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:14:22 +0100 Message-ID: <45B5535E.2000808@xs4all.nl> References: <17842.1385.366750.915767@lisa.zopyra.com> <7vk5zh7b7d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 23 01:14:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H99J7-0004f2-71 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:14:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932410AbXAWAOd (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:14:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932497AbXAWAOc (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:14:32 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50974 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932410AbXAWAOc (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:14:32 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H99J0-0008WL-3e for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:14:30 +0100 Received: from muurbloem.xs4all.nl ([213.84.26.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:14:30 +0100 Received: from hanwen by muurbloem.xs4all.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:14:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: muurbloem.xs4all.nl User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) In-Reply-To: <7vk5zh7b7d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano escreveu: > I've seen this "bad line length character" mentioned in #git and > on this list but nobody seems to have hunted down what this is. > > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0603/17807.html > > is another (Google finds some others for the error message on > xcb list but that is about fetch-pack which is totally different > codepath). if you need another example where this is happening, the anongit repo for lilypond seems to have gotten in this state as well, [hanwen@haring tmp]$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/lilypond/.git/ fatal: protocol error: bad line length character fetch-pack from 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git' failed. pushing/pulling over ssh+git and http still work. (git 1.5.0rc2, not sure what git.sv.gnu.org is running) -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen