Bad line length character after updating to Sourcetree 3.4.8

[Luca]

Hello,

i am experiencing an issue already discussed both here and on stackoverflow, concerning this error:

fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: git_

 but most solutions suggest the problem lies in the server.

Thing is, this happens only on my desktop where i've updated to SourceTree 3.4.8; if i try to fetch/push from my laptop to the very same server it works just fine.
On my laptop i delayed the update, and still running SourceTree ver. 3.4.7.

As for the server address, which includes the 4 bytes of the error message reported above, it is in fact:

Pushing to ssh://git_user@myIp:myPort/volume1/git_repos/myRepo.git

Pageant is running on the client, although there is no ssh key, since i am hosting the server in my house and there's just a password auth for the user git_user.

I also tried removing the passwd file, to see if it was failing authentication, but pushing/fetching won't even get to the authentication phase: i reckon the error happens before auth, since i'm not being asked to input the password again.

Aside from testing with both machines, with the same configuration, where one works and the other doesn't, i'm quite stuck with troubleshooting... the only thing i could concieve was the version mismatch.
I should probably try to downgrade and see if it solves the issue.

Can anyone provide additional feedback?
Thanks

[asundust · Accepted solution]

i have the same problem

my git url is ”git@192.168.10.22:/home/git/abc3.git“

Version downgrade to 3.4.7, it's works

[zeravcic]

+1

[Luca]

Thanks, seems that will be the solution for now.

[zaazbb]

+1

[zaazbb]

i have to push on terminal now.

[danobrega]

Had a similar issue with the error

"protocol error: bad line length character: | Pa"

Downgraded from 3.4.9 to 3.4.7 and its working again.

Running commands manually on the Terminal also worked. For example, if we pressed the "Push" button we would have that error, but if we executed "git push" in the terminal the push operation would run without errors.

[Sign Inaccount]

The same error is still in version 3.4.11. Nothing helps.

[Artur Litau]

On version 3.4.9 you'll have to remove the :
So what you wanna use is
”git@192.168.10.22/home/git/abc3.git“

[paul watje]

On WIndows 10, this fixed this issue on version 3.4.12 and earlier versions.

Assuming you have an SSH private key setup, under Tools -> Options -> General tab

Change the SSH Client entry to "OpenSSH", and click OK.  It will open a command window and ask for your for passcode.

It then works for me.

[Abedeljan Abenasa]

Thank you, sir! It works for me.

[Wenxin Wang]

I upgraded from 3.4.9 to 3.4.14, and this solution works for me. Thank you! Only it didn't ask me for passcode.

[Anders Harvyl]

Downgrading to 3.4.7 worked for me too. Indeed a relief.

[Andreas Törner]

Im using SourceTree 3.4.11 and had the exact same issue. I resolved it after a tip in another thread in this forum by replacing the putty folder by the one included with 3.4.7.

[Javier Camacho]

It's works. The folder, in my case, was in C:\Users\MYUSER\AppData\Local\SourceTree\app-3.4.13\tools\putty

[Juergen Jakel]

Same here - thanks for this solution.

Hope the Atlassian Team will fix this in further versions.

[Gustavo]

Same problem using Windows 10, and the only solution is revert to 3.4.6

[paul watje]

Did you try the seting the ssh client to openssh solution above?

[Gustavo]

Yes, but didn't work for me