Git push stuck at 99%

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Git push stuck at 99%

What do you do when you've added too many large binary files (PSDs) and tried to push, and git gets stuck at 99%?

$ git push origin dev
Counting objects: 4790, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects:  99% (4504/4512)

git is currently using 2.7 gigs of memory and climbing. It was 2.0 when I started typing this question. I think I'll kill it and hope someone knows a good solution.

How long did you wait? If you have a lot of large files, it may take a while to push. If you really need to cancel the push, you can hit ctrl-c to stop it.

mipadi 2010-06-29 17:23:49

I gave it about 15 minutes. It was slowly eating up all my memory though and was just sitting at 99% the whole time.

Trevor Hartman 2010-06-29 17:26:08

If you have huge files (695MB of files, 1.7GB repo) it might take a while (and a fair amount of memory) to compress all the objects. To be honest, Git isn't amazing at handling enormous binary files; I usually keep those in a separate directory and use `rsync` to move them between servers/machines, and create `symlinks` to the downloaded media content.

mipadi 2010-06-29 17:30:34

Stuck at 99% for 15 minutes and ever increasing memory usage doesn't look good. You think it'll eventually succeed if I left it running over lunch? I suppose it can't hurt to try.

Trevor Hartman 2010-06-29 17:31:58

And regarding moving files around: access to the files is easy. I'd like my git repo to include the designs for archival purposes though.

Trevor Hartman 2010-06-29 17:34:32

It is a pretty memory-intensive operation; I can believe it might chew up a lot of memory.

mipadi 2010-06-29 19:12:19

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