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Cloning Errors
If cloning using SSH protocol returns an error “bad line length character”.
Try switching from PUTTY to OpenSSH.
Try other solutions.
Git Extensions Fails to Change to OpenSSH
Git Extensions does not report any errors. However, if you reopen settings
dialog you will see that Putty is still selected.
Remove GIT_SSH environment variable.