Re: Jenkins GitHub Integration

[KEVIN FLEMING (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN)]

You can create a .netrc file in the home directory of your Jenkins user on the machine(s) where you are doing the git operations; this will allow Git to perform HTTP authentication without actually prompting for a username/password combination.

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From:	jenkins...@googlegroups.com
To:	jenkins...@googlegroups.com
Date:	1/28 14:49

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Hi,  

    I have the same issue with private repository. Hope someone can provide a pointer.

    git version 1.7.9.5

    jenkins -- 1.500  

    Jenkins GIT plug -- 1.1.26

    GitHub plugin -- not available from the "available plugins" . This is available from the previous version of Jenkins (1.499)

    ubuntu on AMS EC2 instance

    I have setup the ssh keys with the proper login name (email) to the git hub. And put the public ssh key  to the github SSHKey. 

    Tested the  

    ssh -T g...@github.com 

   works and authenticated. 

    in Jenkins, I selected the git as repository and put the github's HTTPS URL. 

    With public repository, there is no problem; but with private repository, I got the following error message: 

Failed to connect to repository : Command "git ls-remote -h https://github.com/xxxx/test.git HEAD" returned status code 128: stdout:  stderr: fatal: Authentication failed

     I tried to the same command on the command line, 

      git ls-remote -h https://github.com/xxxx/test.git 

    the command prompt me for the login and password, once I provides the both, the commend returns me the refs results. 

    I can also git clone the above project from command line. 

    It looks to me that the Jenkins is complaining about the login and password prompt.  

    I googled around and found one way to work around the issue is to ssh-agent and use ssh-add to result this. but this requires start the ssh-agent ....

     

    

    is this the only way to do this, for sure I am not the first one to connect the jenkins to  github's private repository.   Please help. 

thanks

Chester

On Sunday, September 23, 2012 6:52:02 AM UTC-7, Ramesh Ankam wrote:

Hello Group,

 

I installed Jenkins 1.4.x on Linux/Tomcat6. We have our code base in GitHub, we are unable to get clone the workspace for public and private GitHub repositories. I receive following error when repo url is added to Git option in Source Control. Any suggestions on how to fix the problem.

 

Failed to connect to repository : Error performing command: ls-remote -h https://github.com/wakaleo/game-of-life.git HEAD   Thanks, Ramesh Ankam
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[Chester Chen]

Kevin, 

  thanks for the reply, I am not familiar with .netrc, what should I put into the .netrc file ? 

Chester

[KEVIN FLEMING (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN)]

The first hit in a Google search for "git .netrc" is:

https://gist.github.com/1072829

... and it shows you exactly what to do.

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From:	che...@tingatech.com
To:	jenkins...@googlegroups.com
Cc:	KEVIN FLEMING (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN)
Date:	1/28 15:33

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[Chester Chen]

Kevin, 

    Thanks worked !!!! 

     The only draw back is that now I have the clear password in the .netrc file. 

     very much appreciated. 

Chester

[n8g...@n8gray.org]

For secure storage use a git credentials helper.  See this answer on SO:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/12938677/103934

[Kyle Boon]

You set up an ssh key with github but then you provided a url with HTTPS as the protocol so your ssh key isn't being used. Use the SSH URL of your git repo and it should work without needing a username and password.