I have this problem, too. I assume there must be a more modern solution to the problem of configuration management and tracking, because this is shockingly bad.
On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 5:07:41 PM UTC-7, dougla...@gmail.com wrote: > > I couldn't find any way of entering Git credentials that the > scm-sync-configuration would use. Am I missing something? > > I have created credentials for our git server, and I am able to use these > to check out sources from the server as part of a job (over http). The git > plugin correctly generates a temporary credentials file, and uses it when > doing the fetch. I have failed to find any way to use these same > credentials to authenticate when scm-sync-configuration tries to push > changes to the same server. Viewing the git commands that > scm-sync-configuration is issuing, it doesn't appear to be trying to use > credentials at all. The git command-line client tries to get a password > from the console (which doesn't work, obviously), complaining as follows > (where the missing device is the console): > > SEVERE: [checkinFiles] Problem during SCM commit : fatal: could not read > Password for 'http://usern...@hostname.net': No such device or address > > I have set up credentials as: > > - Jenkins, Credentials > - hostname.net > - Name: hostname.net > - Hostname include: hostname.net > - Username > - Scope: Global > - Username: username > - Password: password > > Git and scm-sync are configured as follows: > > - Jenkins, Configuration > - SCM Sync configuration > - Git repository URL: http://usern...@hostname.net/path/to/repo > - Git > - Name: Default > - Path to Git: git (using the command-line git client here) > > My work-around was to store the git credentials from the command-line, > which isn't ideal (but does at least work): > > $ git config --global credential.helper store > > Is this a Git equivalent of the known Subversion issue discussed here: > https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-21640, or am I missing > something obvious? > > Jenkins 1.596.2 (current LTS version) > Credentials plugin 1.22 > Git client plugin 1.17.1 > Git plugin 2.3.5 > SCM sync configuration plugin 0.0.8 > > ... all the latest versions, as far as I know. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/0dad6d7a-f810-4512-9ad2-47065085ad6b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
