Question: I am on a Mac and I normally run most of my git commands through the command line. All of a sudden this morning, all my command line git commands stopped working. If I type 'git status', the terminal appears to hang for about a minute, and ends up not displaying anything:

```
01412b-malberts:f2 sbanerjee$ git status
01412b-malberts:f2 sbanerjee$ 

```

Other git commands like, pull, push, and branch all have similar behavior.

Strangely, using a git GUI like SmartGit (which actually uses the same git executable as the command line) seems to work fine. I can see modified files, push, pull, everything. 

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing git, re-cloning my repo, and restarting my laptop. Can anyone help me get my git commands working from the command line?

Answer: 
Please disregard this question entirely... Sorry guys, but I was trolled by a coworker who ran a script in my terminal that made my mac use SimpleText to speak out all output from git commands...
Try running git with some debugging on:

```
GIT_TRACE=2 git status

```

Sounds like a local (library?) issue rather than a git bug.