ssh-agent + checkout scm

[Sébastien Rainville]

Hi,

I haven't been able to get ssh-agent and checkout scm to work together, e.g.:

node('slave') {

  sshagent (credentials: ['master-credentials']) {

    checkout scm

  }

}

For some reason the ssh-agent is stopped before the checkout is executed:

[Pipeline] node

Running on ... (truncated)

[Pipeline] {

[Pipeline] sshagent

[ssh-agent] Using credentials master-credentials

[ssh-agent] Looking for ssh-agent implementation...

[ssh-agent]   Java/JNR ssh-agent

[ssh-agent] Registered BouncyCastle on the remote agent

[ssh-agent] Started.

[Pipeline] {

[Pipeline] checkout

[ssh-agent] Stopped.

Cloning the remote Git repository

Cloning repository g...@github.mydomain:Organization/my-project.git

 > git init ... (truncated)

 > git --version # timeout=10

 > git fetch  ... (truncated)

ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin'

hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git fetch --tags --progress g...@github.mydomain:Organization/my-project.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code 128:

stdout: 

stderr: Permission denied (publickey).

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

It doesn't work with the 'git' step either:

node('slave') {

  sshagent (credentials: ['master-credentials']) {

    git url: "g...@github.mydomain:Organization/my-project.git"

  }

}

But it does work with 'sh':

node('slave') {

  sshagent (credentials: ['master-credentials']) {

    sh 'git clone g...@github.mydomain:Organization/my-project.git'

  }

}

What's the difference between these? How come the ssh-agent is allowed to stop before the end of its closure with the first two versions and not with 'sh'?

Thanks,

- Sebastien