Kevin,
Thanks worked !!!!
The only draw back is that now I have the clear password in the .netrc
file.
very much appreciated.
Chester
On Monday, January 28, 2013 12:37:30 PM UTC-8, Kevin Fleming wrote:
>
> 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:*[email protected]
> <javascript:>*To:*[email protected]<javascript:>
> *Cc:*KEVIN FLEMING (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN)*Date:* 1/28 15:33
> ------------------------------
>
> Kevin,
>
> thanks for the reply, I am not familiar with .netrc, what should I put
> into the .netrc file ?
>
>
> Chester
>
>
> On Monday, January 28, 2013 12:23:20 PM UTC-8, Kevin Fleming wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:*[email protected]*To:*[email protected]*Date:*
>> 1/28
>> 14:49
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 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<http://ec2-50-18-85-116.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:9090/pluginManager/plugin/git/thirdPartyLicenses>
>> 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 [email protected]
>>
>> 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
>>> Loading...
>>>
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