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

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Answer 1

This was happening because of huge, unignored file in the repo directory. Whoops.

EDIT

The hang was because the file was taking a long time to upload. The file wasn't supposed to have been included in the push.

EDIT

While it's true that a huge file could be the reason behind this issue, if you can't ignore the file in question or just have to push it then follow this answer.