git - Trouble pushing to Github, cannot spawn sh: No such file or directory -

i'm having difficult time pushing github..i have repository had cloned, , have made changes i'd push github.

while in repository, following:

git add * 

which seems work no response, when do:

git commit -m "test" 

i response:

on branch will_branch nothing commit, working directory clean 

which expect problem starts.

when do:

git push origin master git push origin my_branch 

i error:

cannot spawn sh: no such file or directory cannot spawn git: no such file or directory 

i have gone through many guides no avail..thanks help.

this might happening due large number of tags in repo. check this google-group entry, this question , another google group entry.

basically, known issue msysgit , users on google group suggest using ssh protocol instead workaround:

1. uninstall git (this doesn't uninstall existing repositories or ssh keys you've generated)
2. reinstall git @ c:\git
3. open git bash
4. run command: export git_ssh=/c/git/bin/ssh.exe

also, commit response getting suggests nothing got committed, git log check if commit happened.

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another reason, mentioned in msysgit ticket presence of spaces in environment variables. moving installation of msysgit etc c: instead of c:\program files may solve it.