I am trying to configure a Git project in Jenkins using the Git plugin. In the project configuration page I enter the repository URL in the Git configuration, which is an https URL (https://git.mycompany.com/git/MyProject.git). When I'm building the project however I get the following error:
Started by user Hudson Administrator
[EnvInject] - Loading node environment variables.
Building in workspace /home/hudson/.hudson/jobs/MyProject/workspace
Checkout:workspace / /home/hudson/.hudson/jobs/MyProject/workspace - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@3699cfcc
Using strategy: Default
Cloning the remote Git repository
Cloning repository https://git.mycompany.com/git/MyProject.git
git --version
git version 1.8.2.1
ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin' : Could not clone https://git.mycompany.com/git/MyProject.git
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not clone https://git.mycompany.com/git/MyProject.git
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:286)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.AbstractGitAPIImpl.clone(AbstractGitAPIImpl.java:59)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.clone(CliGitAPIImpl.java:47)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:1012)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:948)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:912)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:885)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.determineRevisionToBuild(GitSCM.java:948)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1114)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1411)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:652)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:88)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:557)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1665)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:507)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:230)
Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to connect to https://git.mycompany.com/git/MyProject.git
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.getURLWithCrendentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1374)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.getURLWithCrendentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1326)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$300(CliGitAPIImpl.java:47)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:280)
... 16 more
Trying next repository
ERROR: Could not clone repository
java.io.IOException: Could not clone
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:1025)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:948)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:912)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:885)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.determineRevisionToBuild(GitSCM.java:948)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1114)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1411)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:652)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:88)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:557)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1665)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:507)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:230)
I can clone the repository from the command line, as well as by executing git clone as a shell command in the Jenkins project pre-build steps, so I'm at a loss on why the plugin configuration doesn't work. Thinking it might be an authentication issue I tried specifying the credentials in a .netrc file as well as including them in the URL (ie. https://username:[email protected]/git/MyProject.git) however in all cases I'm still getting the same error. Any ideas?
This is a bug in the Jenkins Git Plugin.
You can workaround the credential issue by creating credentials using the credential plugin and then use these credentials in the SCM/Git section of your Job. However, this will expose your user/password in plaintext in the build log if the checkout fails.
Also, this will not work if you are using a HTTP proxy with git. The best way (for now) is to use JGit (to be configured in the Jenkins configuration). However, JGit is experimental and very limited as well when it comes to proxies.
(answer posted due to popular request ;) )