Git gets stuck on writing objects

Question

I am trying to git push --all and it just hangs on writing objects

10.0-final-project git:(master) ✗ git push --all
Counting objects: 134, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (129/129), done.
Writing objects:  32% (44/134), 321.56 MiB | 231.00 KiB/s

The 321.56 MiB and 231.00 KiB/s continues to go up.

I have tried using git config --global http.postBuffer and git config --global sendpack.sideband false

Nothing is working. What is the way to resolve this issue?

Answer 1

Looks like you have added a HUGE binary files or folder to GIT.

Its not something you should do with git.

If this is the case consider solutions like: Git Large File Storage

Another relative article can be found here with some sample code for cleaning the repo.

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Step 1: Identify the large files.

We need to search through all of the history to find the files that are good candidates for deletion. As far as I can tell, this is nontrivial, so here is a complicated command that lists the sum of the sizes of all revisions of files that are over a million bytes. Run it on a mac.

git rev-list master | while read rev; do git ls-tree -lr $rev | cut -c54- |     grep -v '^ '; done | sort -u | perl -e '
  while (<>) {
      chomp;
      @stuff=split("\t");
      $sums{$stuff[1]} += $stuff[0];
  }
  print "$sums{$_} $_\n" for (keys %sums);
 ' | sort -rn >> large_files.txt

Step 2: Remove them like they were never there.

This is the fun part. If large_files.txt is still in the same format as before, do this:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf `cat /full/path/to/large_files.txt |
    cut -d " " -f 2` ' --prune-empty <BRANCHES>

Answer 2

I got the same problem. But the cause was the current user didn't have write permission to the destination dir.