Windows installer hangs during installing Git for Windows

[wizcas]

As the title says, the installer doesn't go any further after starting to install Git for Windows.
The Git 2.5.0 Setup process keeps running without any prompts, which make the toolbox installing stuck.

Tried to uninstall my older Git for Windows already. Restarted my computer. Nothing changed.

Is there a way to install and setup Git myself, so I can choose a newer version?

Or, can I just make the installer not to run these 3rd party things in silence mode, so I can check out what's going on?

[yadavji83]

Same happened with me. I have node.js and npm 2.14.7 installed. Recently i had uninstalled older git and today was trying to install new one, but the installer hangs after the progress bar goes to the end. I have windows 7 64.

Also cmd was running when i installed it and was working on a node project, if it helps

[yadavji83]

Found the solution in a minute sorry for not trying it before posting. I closed the hanged installer using crtl+alt+shift+del and tried reinstalling it after closing cmd and it worked this time. First it will uninstall and previous version and then reinstall.

[wizcas]

I previously worked out by installing latest Git for Windows manually, so that docker tools didn't need to.

[leup]

I had the same problem. I managed to workaround it. While the install is hanging I killed the processes named "ssh-add" and "ssh-agent" that were launched during install. By killing them the hanging install can finish.

[ArtificialTruth]

I uninstalled an older version of Git without rebooting afterwards.
Just installed Git 2.9.0 64bit for Windows (using 10 Pro) and it have been hanging for about an hour even though the progress bar is 100%.

Forget about this comment and see my bug report here:
git-for-windows/git#815

[shmuelgutman]

@ArtificialTruth Exactly what happened to me - trying to install Git 2.9.0 and the install stuck on 100% (full green bar)
Please help I need git urgenly

[ArtificialTruth]

@sh-guti I'm not using Docker, so I think I may have posted this the wrong place, I have reported the bug here: git-for-windows/git#815
Also, it seems it installed mine fine, so after a few minutes I think you can force close the installer and be fine.

I am also having trouble with updating to the current version as of this month and it hangs for 5 minutes for each step of the installation on Windows. Probably doesn't happen on Linux because Linus knows his shit while Apple and Microsoft don't. Also the previous git version was so slow that my computer cried.

[epigramx]

This bug persists, however, it appears relatively benign because: I elected to end the process on task manager and for a brief moment - no more than half a second - I did see the "finished, wanna see the readme? etc." window so it appears it only hangs right there at the very end (the command line finds git on a new version after all).

[LvChengbin]

I encountered the same trouble while installing Git on Windows 10, and I found a process named bash.exe with its description Git for Windows. I killed the process and then everything goes well. I don't know if it's a good way of solving this problem because it's not my computer.