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.