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Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers

Reputation: 423

Github commit not working on desktop app

I am using the latest version of the github desktop app(3.0.4) on a windows 10 machine. Recently, I am not being able to make commits. When trying to commit, the app goes to "committing" mode(loading..) and then nothing happens. It does not work when I try to commit a single file also.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5753

Answers (2)

Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers

Reputation: 423

I wrote to the GitHub team and this is what they had to say.

It looks like you're running into an out of memory exception: System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Unfortunately GitHub Desktop does have some edge cases that can cause an OoM -- mainly when working with a large amounts of commits or larger files. We're working on fixing performance to reduce these edges cases, but in the meantime I would try committing directly from the Git Shell:

  1. Hit ~ to open up the repository in the Git Shell
  2. Run 'git add -A' to stage the changes
  3. Run 'git commit -m "your commit message here"' to commit the changes

I haven't faced the problem again after I updated the desktop app(3.0.9.0 now).

Upvotes: 5

Aron Pedersen
Aron Pedersen

Reputation: 21

I am seeing something similar when I "push" the changes to the remote (GitHub) after I upgraded to Windows 10 it seems to hang. It is like the "GitHub Desktop" application never comes back to confirm the push, but if I close the application and then open it again I can see that the "push" did happen at the time when I pressed the Sync button.

When I use the GitBash it works fine and fast. If I had the GitHub Desktop application running while doing this push from GitBash and now do a Sync the changes show up fast in the GitHub Desktop application but it keeps "Syncing" forever.

Upvotes: 2

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