Git push results in fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: This

Question

I am trying to get GitLab working on my server (running CentOS 6.5). I followed the gitlab-receipe to the line, but I just can\'t get it working. I am able to access the web

Answer 1

In my case, my username was changed and this repository's git config was not updated to match the new name.

Check your git remotes to make sure they are pointing to correct place:

git remote -v

Update the config by editing the config manually:

vim .git/config

or through commands

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/USERNAME/OTHERREPOSITORY.git

Answer 2

Adding my experience to this already long list of possible solutions.

In my case I had the access to the repo I cloned, but no access to some other internal repos the package.json was referring to as dependencies or devDependencies. So the solution was getting access to these repos as well.

Answer 3

Had the same issue, in my case the origin repo had been moved, changing .git/config solved my problem.

Answer 4

When I wanted to push my commits, I got this error:

fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: No s

I solved this just by a ssh connection check:

ssh Git@hostIp

Answer 5

I had this same issue and turned out that I was working on a git branch. All I needed to do was push to the master.

$ git push <remote> <local branch name>:<remote branch to push into>

Answer 6

The solution to my issue with this was that I'd forgotten to add in a deploy key for the project (for the user I was trying to deploy as).

Adding a deploy key in https://gitlab/group/project/deploy_keys sorted me out.