I am starting to use Git. I feel it is important to point out that this was not my choice. I have found Git to be problematic to understand but largely stable, until last month. A week into Dec 2010 I found that I could no longer push to our "central" repository. The process would reach 70% on writing objects and then hang. We have no Git "experts", but I asked some of the other people that have been using it and was given a number of suggested resolutions. Issues with Logitech webcams, attempting to do the push from Safe Mode 9 (with networking obviously), using the command line in Git bash rather than Tortoise. None worked. What I ended up doing was uninstalling msysgit and reinstalling it. That resolved the issue. Or so I thought. A couple of days ago the issue recurred. I can no longer "push" to our repository.
I suppose I could just plan on reinstalling msysgit every month from now on, but that seems like to great a concession to me. :-)
Any idea what I can do to resolve this, or even troubleshoot it?
Turns out it was the version of Git, not the OS that was the issue. I had installed Git version 1.7.?. The Server was running version 1.6.4. Byt downgrading my client to 1.6.4 I have not had any issues. Thanks for your assistence on this. I still think I will likely go back to ClearCase until there is more support for Git within my organization. As for adymitruk's comment "You just can't beat what Git enables you to do.", that may be true in general, but I have seen little advantage of Git over SVN for my work. Maybe I am just not enough of a Geek. Maybe I am just stupid as Linus say all SVN users are.
Thanks again Pat O