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How To Fix A Stuck GitHub Push

dev_neil_a on August 29, 2022

Introduction Diagnosing the Issue Cause of the Issue Solution Step 1. Checking the Commit Log Step 2. Reset the Commit to the Last Pushed Commi...
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jordanaf808

I had a similar issue, although the changes I was pushing were very small. I reset back to a known good commit and tried to push it to remote, but it wouldn't let me because there were remote changes I needed to pull first. After pulling those changes (which wasn't a problem), I was able to push up my local changes.

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inchworks

Thanks - this cleared the stuck push to GitHub on my MacBook M1. I don't think git should hang in this way with modest file sizes, but I see unresolved reports of this problem on Apple silicon. Were you using an M1 Mac?

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dev_neil_a

It sucks that it hangs like it does without any kind of error or warning in the logs.

In terms of the machine I was / am on, it's an Intel-based Macbook Pro. I have had this issue on multiple platforms before so it's not an Apple Silicon specific issue.

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inchworks

That's awkward. I'm building a personal website using Hugo deployed via GitHub to a free Vercel account. So far it's gone well, but I planned to include a photo gallery. If I can't push photos to GitHub reliably, then that part of the project is a non-starter.

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Hatem Soliman

Yeah M2 here

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Brandon Michael Hunter

Thank for sharing. I had a similar experience with my django app and the problem was that I was trying to save my ".venv" folder into github. Once I added my ".venv" to my gitignore file, then I was successful for posting my changes to github.

Thanks again.

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Jakub T. Jankiewicz

You don't need to use git log and copy the hash to remove last commit. You can use:

git reset HEAD~1
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This will do the same.

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

You saved my life! 🙏

Faced the same problem using MacBook Air M1 macOS Venture v13.1 when trying to push img created with R Studio.

Thank you for this detailed explanation on how to fix the problem.

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dev_neil_a

👍👍

I'm glad it was useful and solved your problem. It is always images that cause this problem everytime!!

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Hatem Soliman

My solution that I came up with was to do
git push --all origin

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John Moses

Thanks for such detailed problem solving approach. It has helped me solve a two-weeks old problem.
Thank you