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

Just adding a possible solution to others in my situation. In my case I was trying to push a tag.

git push heroku MYTAG:master

It wasn't until I dereferenced the tag that it worked

git push heroku MYTAG^{}:master

You can read more about it here: What does ^{} mean in git?

^{}, e.g. v0.99.8^{}

A suffix ^ followed by an empty brace pair means the object could be a tag, and dereference the tag recursively until a non-tag object is found.