Unless you have a very good reason to use putty, I would reinstall msysgit
and stick with the default openssh. Putty just complicates the whole
process from what I've seen, and causes this "bad line length character" for
some users.
If you must use putty there is a solution for this, but a quick googling
isn't pulling it up. I can dig a bit if you want, but I'd recommend trying
openssh first.
Tekkub
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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Ibrahim Awwal <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Hi guys, I'm trying to learn how to use git. I would have tried it
> before but I had heard it was slow/buggy on Windows, and while I am
> fairly proficient with Linux and dual boot, I do prefer Windows
> overall. But that's beside the point, as msysgit should be working for
> me but isn't. I suspect it has something to do with my public key
> authentication setup. Here are the details:
>
> My repository is here: https://github.com/ibrahima/worldwiideweb/tree
>
> I was writing some code in C and I had been storing it in a Google
> Code SVN repository. But then I heard about msysgit so I wanted to
> move it to github, because I liked the idea of git/github. So I
> downloaded msysgit, and I already had putty so I created a new public/
> private key pair using Pageant and added the public key to my github
> account. Then, I had github import my SVN repo from Google Code, and
> after several days, it finally finished (which was odd, since there
> are only 3 source files and a few eclipse project files, and only 8
> revisions total). Next, I tried to use my github private url and msys
> git bash to clone the newly imported repository, but it failed with
> the following error:
> "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character"
>
> I do have pageant running with my private key loaded. I am suspecting
> that it's an authentication problem because I can clone from my public
> URL, but unless I'm mistaken I should use the private URL if I want to
> actually commit things? Unless the private URL is only for use with
> private projects. I also get errors when I try to clone the private
> URL in linux, so I'm not sure what's wrong. Thanks for the help.
>
> >
>
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