Why is git hanging - have to press enter twice after commands?

Question

Edit: Summary: Every command entered in Git produces a hanging cursor which then says \"bad input\" if anything is typed before enter is pressed. No commands produce any

Answer 1

Considering you are on OS X, and after Keith Thompson's comment, it is possible

• you have an alias in place for git, invoking credential-osxkeychain.
  See "Git hangs indefinitely - broke with osx credential helper I think":

you've aliased git to something else (probably alias git="git credential-osxkeychain"), and you should look in ~.profile to see if you can remove the alias.

• or you have several git installed:

It looks like you installed the git-credential-osxkeychain wrapper in the wrong place (did you cp to /usr/bin/git instead of /usr/local/git/bin?)
To fix, you'll want to just delete /usr/bin/git; assuming git is still installed in /usr/local/bin it should take over.

It's actually installed to /usr/local/git/bin so I just added that to my PATH.