Question

I have a very large git commit, with over 200,000 files. It took a long time to commit, but it is taking even longer to push.

The command I’m running is:

git push -v -u origin master

All I see is:

Counting objects: 251803, done.

And I wait. And wait. And wait.

Is it doing anything, or am I waiting in vain?

Answer 1

Theoretically it’s finding finding the delta’s, which with over 200,000 files could be a lot.

If you are using only one thread, I believe git won’t show that it’s finding the delta’s and it will take a while.

When you do a push of a smaller size, what is your output?
Do you see something like what’s shown on the second line of the below output?

Counting objects: 15, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.

If you don’t see the second line it means you are only using one thread.