diff --git a/platform/util/resources/misc/registry.properties b/platform/util/resources/misc/registry.properties
index 496497afde4c..2c6cf41dbfa0 100644
--- a/platform/util/resources/misc/registry.properties
+++ b/platform/util/resources/misc/registry.properties
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ database.src_storage.enabled.description=Enables database sources storage
 database.src_storage.enabled=false
 
 git.status.write=true
-git.blocking.read=false
+git.blocking.read=true
 git.file.history.full=true
 git.file.history.full.description=Adds "--full-history --simplify-merges" to git log arguments when retrieving history for a file. \
    This may sometimes result in empty merges being shown in the file history. \