Git Commands Stuck Forever

[meherhowji]

I have been using ISH with Obsidian app to sync my iPhone 13 Pro notes to Git. Initially, git add used to get stuck then I tried git gc, git gc --aggressive, git gc --prune=now etc to cleanup blobs and dangling objects. It worked on some cases, but lately the complete git ecosystem is down for me. git status works, git add . and git commit gets stuck on random files.

I tried to run git fsck to check the status and there are no hints. I also tried to run GIT_TRACE2_PERF prefix set to 1 to see I could see pointers, but nothing shows up. My git repo has 1650 objects based on 'git fsck' output and number of uncommitted files are handful. And considering they are just markdown text noted and I am trying to even 'git add' single files and even that gets stuck. Lastly, I also added commit.verbose to true but I don't see any message.

I haven't tried re-installing the app yet because I would have to setup configurations etc. Any inputs?

[onatbas]

I have the same deal. git clone, git fetch etc., all get stuck during the “resolving delta” step. It may be a completely different issue as I find that ish is incredibly slow these days. I could compile a project in 10 minutes , yet the same project took about 4 hours to compile today. This could be related to iOS 15.

[saagarjha]

You’re probably running into #943.

[meherhowji]

Thanks @saagarjha for pointing to the thread.

I noticed an 'Upgrade Repositories' notification in the Settings and it upgraded my git from 2.26.3-r0 to 2.32.0-r0 I did little tests and didn't notice any issue yet, I will use iSH & Obsidian more frequently to come to a conclusion though.

In case, it occurs again, I will run git config --global pack.threads "1" as mentioned in the other thread to see if it resolves the issue. It seems to be working well for many.

[DannyQuah]

Just to say I'm having the same issue on my iPad Model A1709 (iPad Pro 10.5in 1st gen), git 2.34.1-r0. I activated single-threading and that worked for a while resolving deltas. But now I'm stuck forever even at a git commit, while a git add can take up to a minute or more.

[slonik-az]

Confirming the same problem on iPad 12.9 inch (5th gen 2021) with iPadOS 15.3.1 and iSH 1.2.3 (build 298). git add or git commit stuck forever when underlying git repository resides on iPad file providers. Do not have the problem on iSH native file system.

[meherhowji]

It stopped working for me again, once my unstaged and untracked files went high in number. Although previously I mentioned it worked for me momentarily. For me git add itself stays stuck endlessly, the app kind of freezes that even ctrl+c doesn't work.

[MathiasSven]

I am having the exact same issue, git add . just hangs and ctrl+c doesn't work. I also use it for Obsidian

[nate-johnston]

I am also having this issue, on ish 1.2.3. To work around it I had to apk add rsync and set up a script to rsync to a linux box and git add && git commit from there.

[Alex23rodriguez]

Over a year later and this issue persists... i'm on iSH 1.2.3 running iOS 15.6.1

[AzlanCoding]

As mentioned in the comment above, simply run git config --global pack.threads "1" and it should work. I am on iPadOS12.5.5 (1st Generation iPad Air) with ish version 1.2.3

[AzlanCoding]

As mentioned in the comment above, simply run git config --global pack.threads "1" and it should work. I am on iPadOS12.5.5 (1st Generation iPad Air) with the version downloaded from App Store

Usually, if after this if it still gets stuck, just restart ish. It may still get stuck sometimes.

[Dolphins22]

Instead of cloning on the URL (which defaults on main branch), I cloned on a second branch which is named DEV. git clone -b <branchname> <remote-repo-url>

It finished without problem . Then I fetched from master branch and switch it to main branch, all work. So I deleted the Dev branch.

Hope this can help.

[saagarjha]

iSH 1.3 is out, which has fixes for this issue. Please try it out and file new issues with what you encounter!

[Alex23rodriguez]

can confirm that it does appear to be stable. Need further experimentation to be sure, but thanks for the update!

[huaibaowu]

iSH 1.3 is out, which has fixes for this issue. Please try it out and file new issues with what you encounter!

Still have the same issue with iSH 1.3. Anyone else?

[geofflittle]

Yes, I still have this issue on iSH 1.3

[peanut996]

still get issue on v1.3.2

[peanut996]

Found a method to fix it, use mount -t ios-unsafe to mount folder:

eg:

mount -t ios-unsafe . obsidian

then you can run git command smoothly. 😄

reference here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-sync-with-git-on-ios-for-free-using-ish/20861/20

[nfoert]

Found a method to fix it, use mount -t ios-unsafe to mount folder:

eg:

mount -t ios-unsafe . obsidian

then you can run git command smoothly. 😄

reference here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-sync-with-git-on-ios-for-free-using-ish/20861/20

This plus setting the thread count fixed the issue for me. Thanks for sharing.

[antsmallant]

Found a method to fix it, use mount -t ios-unsafe to mount folder: eg:

mount -t ios-unsafe . obsidian

then you can run git command smoothly. 😄 reference here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-sync-with-git-on-ios-for-free-using-ish/20861/20

This plus setting the thread count fixed the issue for me. Thanks for sharing.

It only works in my iPhone 14 Pro (iOS 16.7) while iSH is not killed. Everytime I restart iSH, this issue will happen again.

After reading this issue: rsyncing into mount point from fileprovider doesn't quite work after iSH restart, I found a solution: mount again before handling git.

[nikitakot]

Found a method to fix it, use mount -t ios-unsafe to mount folder:

eg:

mount -t ios-unsafe . obsidian

then you can run git command smoothly. 😄

reference here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-sync-with-git-on-ios-for-free-using-ish/20861/20

@peanut996 does it work permanently to you? after I restart ish the ios-unsafe mount is no longer there, ios mount stays however, so git pull for ex. is slow until I run mount -t ios-unsafe . obsidian again.

[peanut996]

Found a method to fix it, use mount -t ios-unsafe to mount folder: eg:

mount -t ios-unsafe . obsidian

then you can run git command smoothly. 😄 reference here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-sync-with-git-on-ios-for-free-using-ish/20861/20

@peanut996 does it work permanently to you? after I restart ish the ios-unsafe mount is no longer there, ios mount stays however, so git pull for ex. is slow until I run mount -t ios-unsafe . obsidian again.

no，it's temporary, i have to do it after reboot ish every time.