Git stash freezes (console becomes unresponsive)

Question

Git is freezing up on any kind of git stash command.

Press [Enter] nothing happens...ever.

But other git commands seem to work fine. I can pull, commit, etc.

I tried it from the command line multiple times. I tried it on multiple repository locations (some of which are clean checkouts.) I restarted my computer multiple times. I even uninstalled git, and reinstalled git with the same result: stash freezes until I kill it from TM.

As a final added complication, I'm running SourceTree (1.8). I've got SourceTree running an embedded Git version:

Guess what? If I stash using SourceTree...it works just fine.

• Windows 10, 64bit
• Git 2.8.4

Answer 1

As an alternate (hack), in light of my other answer, I've decided to piggyback on the SourceTree's local "Embedded" version of Git that does work.

• I uninstalled my 2.8.4 version.
• I manually added the SourceTree git path to my Windows Environment path. for me this was C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Atlassian\SourceTree\git_local\cmd

Works like a champ! Good temp fix until I can sort out the Cylance issue.