Re: M-x magit-status freezes emacs

[Krishnakant]

On Tuesday 28 February 2017 05:17 AM, John Mastro wrote:
> Krishnakant <krmane@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> > I have barely started to program using emacs in Python and this major
> > issue has come up.
> >
> > For now though, I use the shell and do all my git stuff.
> >
> > But when in a repository I type M-x magit-status the entire Emacs
> > hangs.
> >
> > I can surely press C-g to get back on track but I am not able to use
> > magit.
> >
> > I researched a bit and found that there is some issue with Emacs 24.5
> > with magit.
> >
> > But I am not getting any complete solution to fix this.
> >
> > Can any one help?
> I don't think I ever ran into this, but Magit has an FAQ entry[1] that
> points to a bug[2] that seems to say the issue is related to Tramp and
> that you can work around it with this:
>
> (setq tramp-ssh-controlmaster-options "")
>
> [1]: 
> https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Emacs-245-hangs-when-loading-Magit.html#Emacs-245-hangs-when-loading-Magit
> [2]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20015
>
> Hope that helps
That indeed helped it works fine now.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.