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 (private key over ~/.ssh/config) I had to leave out the ssh part in:

git clone ssh://git@hostname:username/repository.git

It worked with:

git clone git@hostname:username/repository.git

Error message was:

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