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'm wondering if it's the same thing I had...

1. Go into Putty
2. Click on "Default Settings" in the Saved Sessions. Click Load
3. Go to Connection -> SSH -> Bugs
4. Set "Chokes on PuTTY's SSH-2 'winadj' requests" to On (instead of Auto)
5. Go Back to Session in the treeview (top of the list)
6. Click on "Default Settings" in the Saved Sessions box. Click Save.

This (almost verbatim) comes from :

https://tortoisegit.org/issue/1880