`git pull` locks up on one repository

Question

I have a remote git server that has been working great for months. Earlier today a couple of my teammates said they were having trouble with git pull for one of our projects.

I am testing it now and I cannot preform a git pull either. I was able to run git fetch once, but now that isn't working. When I look at the server processes for the git user (the one that connects to the remote repo) I see 3 processes that are just sitting there: sshd, php, and git-upload-pack.

All of the other repositories that are also on this remote server are working fine. The repository is fairly large and just had a new branch added to it.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

git-fsck and git-gc

Answer 2

It ended up being an issue with remote repositories over ssh for that one project. To fix it I rebuilt the remote repository by following these steps on the remote server.

1.In a temp location rungit clone /full/path/to/local/repo/project.git temp_repo, then cd temp_repo

2.Make sure you create, checkout, and pull every branch (I had 3).

3.Now you have a complete fresh copy of the repository, just overwrite the original with the new one with mv /path/to/new/temp_repo /full/path/to/local/repo