git push hangs in object packing

[yegorich]

• [x] I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

$ git --version --build-options
git version 2.23.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 4db2e5cc9e1522131a039cbad3970f147a39f0ce
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8

Windows 10 64-bit

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.295]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

>type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
Editor Option: VIM
Custom Editor Path:
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled
Enable Builtin Interactive Add: Disabled

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

I've setup this option to fix a well known bug for the git:// protocol.

git config --global sendpack.sideband 0

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

I've tried both Bash/CMD/PowerShell and GUI

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

git push

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

Ordiniray git push response that everything got pushed.

• What actually happened instead?

The command hangs and when I press Ctrl-C I get the following message:

error: pack-objects died of signal 2

• If the problem was occurring with a specific repository, can you provide the
  URL to that repository to help us with testing?

It is an internal repository (the size is about 2MB) and it uses git:// as a protocol. On my previous intallation I used Windows 7 64-bit and with the following command I could fix this error:

git config --global sendpack.sideband 0

This time it doesn't help.

[landstander668]

Looks like this is a duplicate of #907.

[assarbad]

... and by extension the more recent #2278 ...

@yegorich Your first and fastest workaround will be to downgrade to v2.21.0 ...

[yegorich]

@assarbad thanks. The suggested workaround works like a charm.