Re: Weird git messages

On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 13:51 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 22:08, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When pushing my last commit, I got some weird messages:
> >
> > [master!git.pgadmin3]$ git push
> > Counting objects: 37, done.
> > Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
> > Compressing objects: 100% (19/19), done.
> > Writing objects: 100% (19/19), 3.58 KiB, done.
> > Total 19 (delta 18), reused 0 (delta 0)
> > Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.
> > fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: Remo
> > error: error in sideband demultiplexer
> > To ssh://git@git.postgresql.org/pgadmin3.git
> >   f75720d..43693e1  master -> master
> > error: failed to push some refs to
> > 'ssh://git@git.postgresql.org/pgadmin3.git'
> >
> > If I try another git push, it seems good:
> >
> > [master!git.pgadmin3]$ git push
> > Everything up-to-date
> >
> > Not sure what happened here. I'm downloading the repo in another
> > directory to check if everything is fine. Feels weird though. Have
> > anyone seen these messages before?
>
> No.
>
> AFAICT, the problem is that the repacking done on the server for some
> reason sends "remo" instead of hex data. remo probably being the
> beginning of "remote" or something like that.
>
> I googled around a bit on it, and from what I can tell it's harmless -
> the operation went fine, the only problem was telling the client about
> it...
>

Googled too yesterday, and saw some mails about it. But I wasn't able to
tell if it was harmless or not. Hope you're right :)


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