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

Hmm perhaps you are in a directory which is not writable?

Normally you can create a directory.

mkdir test
cd test
git init

then you init an empty GIT repo in the test folder and you should see a folder named ".git" which is hidden. Perhaps you can try to build a bare repository.

git --bare init

But your problem sounds a bit strange. Du you run your command with all rights?

Answer 2

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.