Reputation: 3065

Git fails with "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: Pass"

All git commands requiring access to the remote repository fail with the error message:

fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: Pass

They used to work a few days ago.

Upvotes: 2

Answers (3)

Reputation: 1748

Upvotes: 0

Reputation: 754

Had a similarly issue while setting up aws codecommit, I need to add the .ppk to pageant.

Upvotes: 2

Reputation: 3065

The problem was that my ssh key agent (Pageant) wasn't running.

Upvotes: 13