Git hangs while writing objects

Question

I\'m trying to git push -u origin master And it just hangs at

Writing objects:  99% (219/220), 12.65 MiB | 97 KiB/s

The

Answer 1

I followed VonC's advice:

git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000

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For future references, based on comments:

500 MB: 524288000 (as posted in the original answer)
1 GB: 1048576000
2 GB: 2097152000 (anything higher is rejected as 'out of range')