Git hangs indefinitely - broke with osx credential helper I think

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I got tired of typing my password for my bitbucket repo so I looked up a way to use ssh keys but happened upon the osx credential keychain. I thought I had installed it all correctly by following along with what was instructed in the git-scm book but something bad happened...I can't use git at all!! I then went and rm'd the credential-osxkeychain but that didn't fix my issue, neither did uninstalling and reinstalling git.

If I go into a repo that I had previously pulled down, change a file and run git status it hangs indefinitely.

If I make a new directory, cd into it and run git init that will hang indefinitely as well.

When I run git without any arguments the following is printed out: Usage: git credential-osxkeychain <get|store|erase>. I already looked at my /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Acces.app but I couldn't find anything to change. At this point I just want git back...I'm fine with typing my password.

For reference I am using OSX 10.7.2

edited to add: which git returns /usr/bin/git

Petro answered 27/9, 2012 at 2:40 Comment(0)

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Try "git" status (with the quotes). If that works, you've aliased git to something else (probably alias git="git credential-osxkeychain"), and you should look in ~.profile to see if you can remove the alias.

(See the attached commentary for the debugging steps and eventual resolution).

Steelyard answered 27/9, 2012 at 2:44 Comment(10)

I thought it was \ that made it go around aliases. I tried both regardless, neither worked. I also looked in .bash_profile, .bashrc and .gitconfig – Petro 27/9, 2012 at 2:46

\ works too; I'm just used to "...". Did you perchance replace git with some sort of wrapper? What does which git produce? – Steelyard 27/9, 2012 at 2:48

just edited my post to say which git returns /usr/bin/git – Petro 27/9, 2012 at 2:49

less /usr/bin/git produces binary gibberish? Maybe use Instruments.app or dtrace to figure out what this apparently-modified git is doing? – Steelyard 27/9, 2012 at 2:53

yeah, binary gibberish indeed. actually...some of it is legible for whatever reason. and it says something like /usr/local/share/git-core/contrib/credential/osxkeychain or /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.7.10/share/git-core/contrib/credential/osxkeychain/git-credential-osxkeychain – Petro 27/9, 2012 at 2:56

It looks like you installed the git-credential-osxkeychain wrapper in the wrong place (did you cp to /usr/bin/git instead of /usr/local/git/bin?) To fix, you'll want to just delete /usr/bin/git; assuming git is still installed in /usr/local/bin it should take over. – Steelyard 27/9, 2012 at 3:0

Your issue would make sense given that the credential helper likely calls back to git, which would result in an infinite exec loop. – Steelyard 27/9, 2012 at 3:2

Thanks a lot! It works now. I was going to try that but I guess I didn't really have the balls to do so without an internet recommendation. It's actually installed to /usr/local/git/bin so I just added that to my PATH. – Petro 27/9, 2012 at 3:6

This worked for me and I reinstalled from brew so it had the osxkeychain already. Maybe you should add the commentary resolution to the answer? Thanks! – Dibranchiate 17/10, 2012 at 15:38

Hehe, I had this problem and it turned out that I copied osxkeychain to /usr/local/git/bin/git rather than /usr/local/git/bin/. D'oh! – Cogen 21/11, 2012 at 19:2

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To fix this I reinstalled git from http://git-scm.com/download/mac and then added /usr/local/git/bin to the top of the file /etc/paths

Hepplewhite answered 6/11, 2012 at 12:0 Comment(1)

Never thought of that. Nice work. Worked. mv /usr/bin/git /usr/bin/git_old ln -s /usr/local/git/bin/git /usr/bin/git – Conduce 18/2, 2014 at 17:7