Git operations occasionally hang in Jenkins on Windows
We are running continuous Jenkins builds of a Git project hosted at Assembla. Jenkins is running on Tomcat 6 under its own user and generally works fine. However every once in a while (say once in every 10 builds), the checkout operation at the beginning of the build job simply hangs. At other times the Git tag operation at the end of the build also hangs. I believe this did not ever happen in command-line operation (on the same host with the same user). When hung, the Windows process tree shows taskhost.exe ? tomcat6.exe ? git.exe ? ssh.exe When externally killing the Git and ssh processes of