GitHub sync not working. git push super slow

Question

We have a large project ~13gb. We can commit it just fine to the github software (had to commit in sections). But upon trying to sync the commits to the repo it fails. doing git status tells us that we are ahead of the master by 4 commits and to use git push. git push starts working but is extremely slow. (120kbps) Is this normal?

Answer 1

In addition of disk quota which might make the push fail anyway, git push can be slow for a number of reasons:

• git gc applied on your local repo before the push can help.
• ssh settings (if pushed using an ssh url)
• network issues (check what a git push --verbose does return)