git: Suddenly can't push, or clone, or anything

Question

Out of the blue, I can't push, or clone or pull with git.

I used to push successfully all the time. I don't remember doing anything unusual, but today it just stopped working. (I'm using git-gui on XP.) Whenever I try to push, the program waits for like 4 minutes and then gives me this:

FATAL ERROR: Server unexpectedly closed network connection
Pushing to [email protected]:cool-RR/physicsthing.git
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I tried reinstalling git-gui, didn't help. I tried to clone my repo from github in a separate folder, got a similar message. Pageant is loaded with my key. I tried getting a new key, didn't help.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

This happened to me the other day. It was because GitHub was down briefly. I pushed again a few minutes later and it was fine.