I had a situation lately where I had a very very large file in my repo directory that was untracked (but not gitignored). This caused the

git update-index

etc steps to take more than 7m 😅 and very much confused me as to why

gt sync

was "hanging" (not `gt`'s fault in the end at all). It would be nice if such huge files could be detected and warned about in

--debug

logs at least (even more ideally to

stderr

or something generally) so as to explain what's going on 🙂

Hey Avery, thanks for writing in! This issue is already on our radar, so I updated the request with your feedback: the

--debug

output should explain the likely cause, not just show the Git command. For example, it could explicitly warn when a very large untracked file is likely making Git index operations slow. In the meantime, the workaround is to move that file outside the repo or add it to

.gitignore

if it should never be tracked.