Git push hangs when pushing to Github

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Git push hangs everytime I try to push to github  I am using Cygwin and Windows 7  Git functions fine locally tracking branches  providing status  setting global user name and user email and allowing commits    I m still new and learning   I enter git push   git push origin master or git push -u origin master and I get nothing but a blank line requiring me to ctl-c to get the prompt back    ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  me example com  asks me for a file name and hangs  git push heroku master hangs    git status returns On branch master nothing to commit  working directory clean    git pull returns Already up to date    git remote -v returns   heroku  git heroku com myherokusite git  fetch   heroku  git heroku com myherokusite git  push  origin    https   github com gitusername appname git  fetch  origin    https   github com gitusername appname git  push   or the correct ssh remote settings are returned when trying this with ssh   Updated  Using the SSH url git github com gitusername gitrepo git also hangs  git remote set-url origin https   github com gitusername appname git is correct  Updated  I can see the git processes running in Windows Task Manager while it hangs   I ve tried   Using different internet connection locations  switching between https and ssh and it hangs  Uninstalled git  Reinstalled from  https   code google com p msysgit downloads list   Uninstalled git  Installed Cygwin s git  Uninstalled git  Installed Github for Windows GUI app and it I WAS able to push  But this app has limited functionality  forces me out of my Cygwin window into another app which then forces me into a Windows command prompt for complete functionality which I thought I had escaped by using Cygwin    Spent many  many hours trying to resolve this  it worked faultlessly before  thanks   UPDATE 4 2014  I rebuilt my entire machine Win 7  Cygwin etc and all is now working fine

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I had the same problem with absolutely same symptoms… I was about to rebuild my whole system in my despair)).

I even was so naive to try git config --global core.askpass "git-gui--askpass" as some people suggest here, but it didn't work… git push was still freeze…

But then I figured out that there was an error with my SSH agent. So I've restarted ssh-agent and… PROFIT

Conclusion: Always check your SSH Agent and SSHD server when you have troubles with ssh connection… I'm pretty sure that was your problem (And that's why it worked after reinstallation of your system)

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I m wondering if it s the same thing I had      Go into Putty Click on  Default Settings  in the Saved Sessions  Click Load Go to Connection -  SSH -  Bugs Set  Chokes on PuTTY s SSH-2  winadj  requests  to On  instead of Auto  Go Back to Session in the treeview  top of the list  Click on  Default Settings  in the Saved Sessions box  Click Save    This  almost verbatim  comes from    https   tortoisegit org issue 1880

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Will usually see myself running into this problem when pushing a large quantity of files   If you can be patient and let the files finishing uploading  you might not need to do anything at all  Good luck

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Another reason might be that the git server has reached its resource limits  and there s nothing wrong with your local git setup

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Restart your ssh agent   killall ssh-agent  eval  ssh-agent

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This occurred for me  here is how I fixed  I used Cygwin and it hanged so I tried prompting for username password on commit    git config --global core askpass  git-gui--askpass    Once I executed git push -u origin master and entered username password  it still did hang but appeared to commit to GitHub   Used same command from dos prompt   git push -u origin master Git does not hang  So perhaps issue related to CygWin in my case

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In my case the issue was there was some process that had locked my keychain access      Force quit all other apps to make sure keychain access is not locked on your Mac

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Its worth checking if you are using the cygwin git or an external git  ie github    If whereis git returns just  cygdrive c Program Files  x86  Git cmd git exe or similar its best to install the cygwin git package  this solved the problem for me

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I had the same issue   Stop worrying and searching endless complicated solutions   just remove git and reinstall it   sudo apt-get purge git sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get install git   Thats it  It should work now

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I had the same problem  All the git commands accessing remote git repository are hanging  I forgot that I changed my VM network settings  Once I changed it back to NAT  as before  then they started working  It is not an issue with the git but with the network itself

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Try GIT CURL VERBOSE 1 git push    Your problem may occur due to proxy settings  for instance if git is trying to reach github com via a proxy server and the proxy is not responding  With GIT CURL VERBOSE 1 it will show the target IP address and some information  You can compare this IP address with the output of the command  host www github com  If these IPs are different then you can set https proxy  quot  quot  and try again

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Try creating a script like   sshv sh that will show you what ssh is up to      bin bash ssh -vvv        Allow execution of the   sshv sh file for the owner of the file   chmod u x   sshv sh   Then invoke your git push with   GIT SSH   sshv sh git push       In my case  this helped me figure out that I was using ssh shared connections that needed to be closed  so I killed those ssh processes and it started working

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git config --global core askpass  git-gui--askpass    This worked for me  It may take 3-5 secs for the prompt to appear just enter your login credentials and you are good to go

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Try the following   git config --global core askpass  git-gui--askpass   This will prompt for credentials and then  push  succeeds if credentials are correct

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I also had an issue where git hangs on the  Writing objects  part on Windows 7  using msysgit  the default windows client from git  and this is the first hit I got in google  so I will also post my answer here   git config --global core askpass  git-gui--askpass  did not work unfotunately  but after some researching I found the tip on Git push halts on  quot Writing Objects  100  quot  to use git config    global sendpack sideband false which worked perfectly   I can finally push from the commandline again

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This occurred for me when my computer s disk space was full  Delete some files  amp  empty the trash to fix

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I thought my Git windows screen was struck but actually a sign in prompt comes behind it Check for it and enter your credentials and that s it

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I had two repositories  pushing to one of which worked fine  So  I compared their  git config  The non-working one had at the end    http      sslVerify   false   The working one had instead    credential      helper   store   Changing  git config solved the problem

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Had the same problem  Was a little bit confused but the thing was I had make a git init --bare on root  that means that you won t be able to push because of you don t have any rights  Instead make a new User or in my case I used Pi User and made git init --bare there  which then later on it worked   git config --global http postBuffer 524288000      Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP transports when POSTing data to the remote system    For requests larger than this buffer size  HTTP 1 1 and Transfer-Encoding  chunked is used to avoid creating a massive pack file locally  Default is 1 MiB  which is sufficient for most requests

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I just wanted to say that I m having this issue on my AWS EC2 instances  I was trying to push from my EC2 instance itself  when I have it configured to only allow traffic in from the load balancer  I changed the rule to allow HTTP in from everywhere  but it still didn t fix the problem  Then I realized it s because my security groups are configured to not allow outbound traffic from my EC2 instances over HTTPS  I didn t have allow HTTPS inbound traffic to make it work  even though it s probably a good policy for you to have HTTPS available inbound

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For the sake of completeness  sometimes problems like this are not as complicated as they might seem    Having a non-existing remote repository configured can also result in this behavior - I recently found out by accidentally changing my origin s URL to githu com

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