Comments on: Workaround: “git push” from msysgit (git for Windows) hangs

By: thierrybo

thierrybo — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 08:52:05 +0000

Thanks also to Pavel the poster of comment #8. Becaause I can’t find anymore “side-band-64k” string.

Note that I had to add manually:

[sendpack]
sideband = false

to global .gitconfig, because the command:

$ git config –-global sendpack.sideband false
error: key does not contain a section: –-global

does not work.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:32:43 +0000

Thankyou to the poster of comment #8. I ran into this same problem with git 2.10 on a Windows client and have been pulling my hair out all morning. Using the global config option solved the problem.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:41:28 +0000

Microsoft helped me with this issue and we figured things out! I wrote a blog post about it here https://pedroliska.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/git-push-hangs-when-windows-git-client-pushes-to-teamfoundation-git-server/

Thanks Eli for posting about this.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:47:29 +0000

I’m running into the same issue as you guys. I tried both the hex fix and the sideband setting fix. None worked for me =( .

On the server side, the repo is a TFS (Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server) Git repository. What is curious is that Visual Studio can push the repo just fine but the regular git client (1.9.5.msysgit.1) can’t … It seems that the TFS server and the regular git client don’t like each other sometimes.

And this had to happen after months of convincing my dev teammates to switch to Git. Aaaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

Well, this won’t affect devs since we all have VS, but the build guys are freaking out about this since they have had sporadic hangings when cloning repos and we believe the cloning issue is related to this.

By: Pavel Kosnyrev

Pavel Kosnyrev — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:19:34 +0000

“git config –global sendpack.sideband false” on client solves the problem (git version 1.9.4.msysgit.2)

By: Igor

Igor — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:06:59 +0000

This is amazing.
I just used Notepad++ to do a replace on the git.exe.
Thank you!!

By: Robby

Robby — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:42:37 +0000

I don’t know who you are, but you’re a damned genius.

Thanks for posting this.

By: Graveen

Graveen — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:32:33 +0000

Brilliant !

I’m actually installing GIT into a DNS-323 NAS, arm-based, and i was forced to use SMB or HTTP (but in both cases, the NAS is not really powerful so the workload is important). The funpkg package manager is providing a working GIT package, but impacted by the bug.

Kudos for this solution, elegant and efficient !

By: Andrew MacLeod

Andrew MacLeod — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:45:37 +0000

This fixed worked for me. The only tricky thing was to find the correct git executable that the daemon is running on the server.

By: eli

eli — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:57:50 +0000

Ehm, yes. Please read again. I fixed the server, not the client. Even though hex editing the clients is possible, it’s indeed the longer path to go.