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 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git push ...It may happen due to proxy setting git will be trying to reach github.com via proxy server and proxy is not responding. With GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 will show the ip address and some information. you can compare ip address with command output "host www.github.com" ip address. if they are different then you can make https_proxy="" and try again.