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#1

I am not sure whats caused this problem with source tree and multiple fixes havent cured the problem.
git.exe for windows has stopped responding and needs to close.
Mostly happened when trying to commit but can randomly do it whilst running in the background.
It will only sort itself out if you fully reboot the machine and then do the push seperately.

Unfortunatly this happened to me during the refactoring in the unreal course and it resulted in my project no longer recognising the umap files. It also on doing a revert to commit decided large file storage was set up but not installed on my project and decided to download the current pushed commit and merge it with the new files structure.

Basically meant i had to spend all day reverting trying to fix it.

TLDR

Sourcetree gives git.exe for windows stopped respond
Reboot fixes it so you can push but not cures it
Reinstall doesnt cure it (sourcetree not windows 7)
It can REALLY screw up your project if its bugging out.
My advice is if you get this mess its better to go to github, Download the last commit that worked. Delete your local files, Replace with the download, Delete the github repository and then set up a working github and connect it to a new repository on github.

Until we discover why it repeatidly gives the error! (It might be my windows got bugged out somehow i guess)

@sampattuzzi I might be a bit delayed on animation lecture feed back as this took me back to before i started refactoring anything sadly.

#2

I would definitely start by reinstalling git and source tree. The other thing to try is using git exclusively from the commandline. That might be a bit tricky at first if you don’t know the commands but at least you will be able to see all the error messages.

#3

Sorry i forgot to get back to this one. I think windows updates may have been the culprit as i did some of those and rebooted and it randomly stopped doing this.
It may well be a solution if the problem comes back again but for now we are all good (aside from an occasional 405 error when pushing but push seperately after the commit works)

Thanks Sam

#4

Will mark as done for now.

#5

Hey @sampattuzzi , Sorry to reopen this but i have actually found a surprising solution to the git.exe crashing.

Had the same issue today trying to push a commit and i realised i had a game called rappelz open selling items.
I shut down rappelz and the push succeeded first time.
My best guess is that game guard (Anti cheat software) blocks something that causes git.exe to crash.

So if anyone gets this error and has a game running it can be solved now.

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#6

Wow! That’s a seriously obfuscated bug.

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