Git push hangs after writing a few files

Question

I was trying to push a a branch but it hangs after writing 82% of the objects. It doesn't proceed to write anything after 72 of 87 files but the corresponding file size increases and eventually exceeds the size of the whole project. what is the problem?

Writing objects: 82% (72/87), 4.09 MiB | 89 KiB/s

Probably a stupid question but you're not tracking a bottomless file like `/dev/zero` are you? — asm, Feb 05 '13 at 13:52
@DonQuixote What do did you mean exceeds the size of the whole project? Does it exceed the size of your working copy or the size of your working .git directory? — asm, Feb 05 '13 at 17:30
@DonQuixote Was something large committed to the repository and then removed? It could be pushing something that was in a prior commit but was deleted from the current head. — asm, Feb 05 '13 at 18:07
Ah, that's it then, it's pushing the commit(s) containing the video. — asm, Feb 05 '13 at 18:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

As you noted in the comments there is a video in the commit history. Any commit with the video is going to be huge, but should only need to be pushed once. If you're okay with that then I would just wait for the push to complete.

If you need to remove it you'll have to rewrite your history to not contain the video. This answer has instructions on how to do this. You can use rebase if there are only a few commits, if not you should use git filter-branch.

Git push hangs after writing a few files

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