Cloud push-to-deploy via git with a password

[Liam Clancy]

Initially projects setup in the Cloud Developer console had an option to generate a Git password to access the repository used for push-to-deploy. This was needed for IDE/GUI's and other git tools that did not understand oauth2.

It was previously found under Cloud Deployment > Releases > Configuration > Generate Git Password

There is a screenshot included in the docs to illustrate this: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/push-to-deploy#selecting_a_release_type

The UI seems to have changed since and there is no longer this option, however clients setup with a password still continue to work, even after an error regarding the lack of gcloud oauth2 integration:

 "git: 'credential-gcloud.sh' is not a git command. See 'git --help'."

Git on the command line works fine after running and storing the oauth2 tokens via 'gcloud auth login'.

I am using:

 * Google Cloud SDK 0.9.20

 * Mac OS X 10.9.2

 * git version 1.9.0

 * Git Tower as an example non oauth2 aware app.

Qu: is this option intentionally removed and/or will not be supported in future?

Qu: is there a way to integrate the credential-gcloud.sh with Git using IDE/GUIs

Liam

[John Asmuth]

google-cloud-sdk/bin needs to be in the PATH seen by your IDE - in there is a script 'git-credential-gcloud.sh' (which is what git really means when it talks about 'credential-gcloud.sh', and when we set 'gcloud.sh' as the credential helper, go figure) that must be available to your IDE. Also, the gcloud binary must be available.

So here's the tricky part - setting the PATH for a mac UI program is actually *really* tricky. Certainly the contents of your .bashrc have no effect on it.

I recommend you put symlinks to gcloud and git-credential-gcloud.sh in /usr/local/bin

$ sudo ln -s /wherever/you/put/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud /usr/local/bin/gcloud

$ sudo ln -s /wherever/you/put/google-cloud-sdk/bin/git-credential-gcloud.sh /usr/local/bin/git-credential-gcloud.sh

In the future, our installers will do this for you - the current mechanism with setting PATH is just something that works until we get a nice native installation experience for each platform.

[John Asmuth]

I wasn't completely clear in my last email - creating those symlinks can be done *instead* of the stuff for PATH. If you make a symlink in /usr/local/bin for every binary in google-cloud-sdk/bin, then all of this PATH nonsense can be skipped entirely.

[Jeremiah van Oosten]

John,

I am experiencing a similar issue on Windows 7 64-bit. TortoiseGit is using the gcloud.cmd credential helper but if I try to run a pull or push command using TortoiseGit, a command window appears and hangs indefinitely. Running the command 'gcloud auth it-helper "get"' on the command line also hangs indefinitely.

Running "git push origin mater" and "git pull origin master" on the CLI works fine but using TortoiseGit to perform the same thing does not work.

The path the google-cloud-sdk/bin folder is in my user PATH variable.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Jeremiah van Oosten

[John Asmuth]

Hi Jeremhiah,

'$ gcloud auth git-helper get' will indeed hang - it's waiting for input like

protocol=https
host=source.developers.google.com

If you can verify that typing that into the git helper works, then the problem is with how tortoise-git is accessing things, and we can go from there. 

[Jake Vosloo]

I'm having the same problem with gcloud auth git-helper get on Windows 8 x64 with TortoiseGit as Jeremiah. 

I typed the following into the console window but it had no effect:

protocol=https

host=source.developers.google.com

This is raised as an issue on Google Code.

Any further ideas?

[Jeffrey Vaughan]

Hi Jake,

Are there leading spaces in front of "protocol" and "host"?  This can cause `gcloud auth git-helper git` to fail.  (It's a bug an we're now tracking it internally.)  If you're still having trouble try creating a file, say test.txt, containing 

protocol=https

host=source.developers.google.com

and running 

  type test.txt | gcloud auth git-helper get 

Cheers,
Jeff