Git push hangs when pushing to Github?

Question

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 "[email protected]" 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  [email protected]:myherokusite.git (fetch)

heroku  [email protected]: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 [email protected]: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

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

Restart your ssh agent!

killall ssh-agent; eval `ssh-agent`

Solution 3

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.

Solution 4

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="" and try again.

Solution 5

Using "Command Prompt" (cmd) instead of git bash for initial push resolved the hang up for me. Since then I use git bash without any issues.

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Comments

[Guillaume Darmont]

Are you behind a firewall or a proxy ?

[Matt Singer]

I tried different internet connections without success, yes I have anti-virus which had never caused a problem previously. No proxy.

[skilbjo]

Any luck? I am encountering the same issue with cygwin. A fix: if I use the native windows shell (cmd.exe) however, git push origin master works fine.

[Michael Trojanek]

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.

[ktamas]

For me restarting computer helped.

[PetMarion]

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

[erwaman]

When this happens for me, I've found deleting ~/.ssh/[email protected]:22.connection fixes the issue (I have some settings in ~/.ssh/config to persist connections).

[42n4]

I had to logout from VPN.

[Allan Nienhuis]

that was very helpful for me - Thanks!

[hello_there_andy]

I ran this and now it keeps saying error: cannot run git-gui--askpass: No such file or directory, could you advise me on how to reverse this please?

[markphd]

@hello_there_andy this may help you.

[Yan King Yin]

how do you restart ssh-agent? I'm using linux

[ashes999]

I restarted ssh-agent by terminating the ssh-agent.exe process. On windows, you can use ps -ef | grep ssh to find it, and kill to exterminate it. Restarting is probably safer. @YanKingYin

[Drew]

@Yan King Yin Nov, I'm not sure about linux, but on mac I've done it using LaunchControl GUI or running: sudo launchctl stop /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent and sudo launchctl start /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent... Pretty sure linux should have something similar to bsd launchd… Like init-v or systemd way of stopping/starting agents/daemons… You could try this spell: killall ssh-agent; eval $(ssh-agent). Let me know if it's working for you.

[Luka Ramishvili]

This was the issue in my case. Fortunately, git push hanged for multiple remotes so I knew there wasn't a problem with the remote's server.

[AlwaysLearning]

This line did nothing for me. Empty output.

[Jérémie Lesage]

For debug, it's simpler to add LogLevel DEBUG3 in ~/.ssh/config

[Sebasthian Ogalde]

After running this line, the problem is not solved and now when pushing, git keeps saying error: cannot run git-gui--askpass: No such file or directory. The solution added by @forloop helped me to reverse it.

[Matteljay]

I tried git push -u origin master --verbose but even that didn't show anything useful. After reading this solution I copied the whole ~/.ssh from my older Linux pc to my Windows Cygwin64 home/user folder, worked like a charm.

[EMon]

That's the one!

[Albert Mosiałek]

Thank you. In my case it was enough to restart sshd: sudo systemctl restart sshd

[Martin DeMello]

thanks, just ran into this problem and it was my ssh agent hanging too! would have taken me ages to figure it out myself

[colmjude]

This worked for me too when my terminal was hanging indefinitely

[thienkhoi tran]

This should be the answer, I'm using ubuntu 20 (2 years since your posted comment) and facing the same issue, I've reinstalled this and it's working now,

[jones]

it seems to happen again and again though :( this command helps sometimes, other times it will still halt. something's not right

[jburtondev]

Yes that doesn't sound right. Perhaps you should put this command in your bash profile so every time you load the terminal it will run it.

[Timo]

After Adding logLevel Debug3, is ssh reload needed? I do not think so due to client side.

[Timo]

GIT_SSH=~/sshv.sh git push ...: Is this a GIT var and also a cmd to run/execute? Why is the var defined and not the script run with the git push param. I tested this: ssh -vvv 'git push', but no avail.

[Kushan Gunasekera]

This is working fine in Ubuntu 20.04, thank you @gustavz

[stasdeep]

That was the issue for me, thanks a lot! After disconnecting from the VPN I've managed to push.

[Stefan]

Where is that sign in prompt?

[Keshav Gupta]

I did not expect this to work! thanks for the tip

[devnull69]

Oh my god ... this worked. I wasn't expecting this

[blaylockbk]

I killed all tasks and now git push works. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[jburtondev]

@blaylockbk lol

[Flip]

Worked perfectly fine for me. I didn't even have to enter any credentials.

[Dave Pritlove]

This worked for me. Terminal on Mac was hanging after listing Enumerating... Counting... Writing... Total... but this killall freed it up.

[Jomy]

That's the one for me

[user212514]

I ended up setting the buffer for the local repo only, but it solved my issue git config --local http.postBuffer 524288000

[rufatZZ]

THIS IS THE ONE!

[aRyhan]

2022 and this still works!