title: Pushing cloned project to new github repository hangs
body: <p>Hello Stackoverflow community,</p>
  <p>First, I've searched around the site and have spent this entire week reading up on this issue, but I have not found any solution. I'm hoping someone here can help me. I'm trying to push a cloned project to a new github repository but the process hangs and I have no idea what's wrong.</p>
  <p>Goal: to push a cloned github project (cloned from github.com/xyz) to a newly created github repository (which exists in github.com/abc)</p>
  <p>Problem: after running &quot;git push origin master&quot; and entering my username and password, the process just hangs (no errors of any kind)</p>
  <p>The steps I took (which worked several times earlier this year, but no longer does for some unknown reason):</p>
  <ol>
  <li>created new repository on github.com/abc (my personal acct)</li>
  </ol>
  <h3>Terminal:</h3>
  <ol>
  <li><code>git clone &lt;https://github.com/xyz/project.git&gt;</code><br />
  (xyz is school acct that contains the project that I want to clone and push to abc)</li>
  <li><code>cd into cloned project</code></li>
  <li><code>git init</code> (msg says &quot;Reinitialized existing Git repository in...&quot;)</li>
  <li><code>git add</code> . (i run git status and this shows &quot;nothing to commit&quot; msg)</li>
  <li><code>git commit -m &quot;msg&quot;</code></li>
  <li><code>git remote set-url origin &lt;https://github.com/abc/project.git&gt;</code> (origin previously points to xyz as expected, but this cmd successfully changes origin's ref to abc)</li>
  <li><code>git push origin master</code></li>
  </ol>
  <p>As stated above, I ran through these steps exactly as listed several times earlier this year and it worked all the time. But now, it no longer does. It just hangs on me after step 8. What's going on?</p>
  <p>I've also tried to remove the old origin reference in order to run &quot;git remote add origin new-remote-repo-URL&quot;:</p>
  <ol>
  <li><code>git remote rm origin</code> (successfully removes origin)</li>
  <li><code>git remote add origin new-remote-repo-URL</code> (successfully adds new origin)</li>
  </ol>
  <p>Relacing step 6 with these two steps and then running step 7 also hangs.</p>
  <p>Thanks for reading. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.</p>