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

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.

Answer 2

In my case I was having slow internet upload speed and the file I wanted to push was big, the trick is to use git LFS (large file storage) that is much more patient to upload big files, you can find a git LFS tutorial here

Answer 3

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')

Answer 4

I had the same problem with (writing objects %16) stuck then fatal. I solved this by saving the current changes and clone a new repository, then copy the modified files into it.

Eg. Assume current repository is A, then all you need to do is:

1. mv A B
2. git clone A
3. mv B/* A/
4. rm -rf B

Then commit and push and it all worked fine. It recognized the moved files as modified :)

Answer 5

git clean -f -n solves my issue. There are many untracked files not detected. But be careful because this will remove files in your directory

Answer 6

In my case, I was using a git folder with bad rights stored on the same drive as a repo, but it could be the same with ssh even if you use an authorized login user.

Check then if you have correct rights to write on the distant repo.

Example:

Init local and distant repo

git init /tmp/src
git init --bare /tmp/dst
cd /tmp/src

Adding remote repo to origin

src > git remote add dest /tmp/dst

Simulating problem

src > chmod -R 555 /tmp/dst

Adding fake file and pushing it

src > touch a && git add a && git commit -m 'demo'
src > git push --set-upstream dest master
src > git push
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 99% (2/3), 202 bytes | 0 bytes/s.

Git hangs

Solution

src > chmod -R 775 /tmp/dst