Re: Meaning of "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character"?

Bill Lear [off-list ref] writes:

We are using git 1.4.4.1, the latest I thought available, not 1.4.4.4
(perhaps you mis-typed?).

In any case, I personally would love to try the latest build of git,
but I don't think I can convince the rest of the company to do so.

I just got an email from one of the developers.  He seems to think
this is alleviated by using bash instead of tcsh.

Heh, you'll never know what you would get until you ask.  I
temporarily run chsh on myself to use tcsh as my login shell,
and sure enough I am getting the error.

fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: 75 70 64 61

It reads "u p d a"; most likely the command name we are running,
which is "update".  I think it is spitting out an error message
or something silly like that saying "update hook is not
executable".  Let me dig a bit further and report later.

This is with my previous patch; you do not have to update to
1.5.0-rc1 -- it would not fix anything in this area.