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

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.