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 I was observing this error only in "SSH Extensions" for Windows.

The same command worked from command line. I switched SSH setting from PuTTY to OpenSSH and it stopped generating error.