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 that error was fixed by changing remote git-user shell to git-shell using chsh:

chsh -s $(command -v git-shell) git

Official git-shell documentation. For security reasons it is highly recommended to use this shell for git-user on remote repository server.