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 a

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Try the following;

git config --global core.askpass "git-gui--askpass"

This will prompt for credentials and then "push" succeeds if credentials are correct.

Answer 5

1. 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.

2. 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.

Answer 6

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.