For the record, once I had committed and pushed from the Linux machine, so the repository was no longer empty, I found I could clone to the windows machine.
So the issue was it being an empty repo, but why cloning it worked on Linux, but not on Windows, is still a mystery to me. On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 4:01:15 PM UTC+1, Jonathan Hodgson wrote: > > Well, in my best Homer Simpson voice.. > > "Doh!" > > I had it right on my windows machine (more on this in a moment), but when > I tried switching to a linux one (since instructions for using ssh tend to > be geared towards Linuz/Unix systems) I missed the capital L, and by that > point I wasn't looking for anything quite that obvious! > > Thanks for that. > > So now on Linux I seem to get a successful clone, I get > > warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. > > Which I'm guessing is just because it's a completely empty repository, as > mentioned i the docs? > > So a partial success, but when I try on windows (using either tortoisegit > or gitbash), I get > > fatal: could not fetch refs from ssh:// > > It's finding the repository now (I checked by intentionally using the > wrong name, and the message is different), and I can successfully do the > who-am-i using ssh inside git-bash. > > The issue may be obvious to many people, but I'm primarily a mercurial > user, not a git one. > > regards > > Jon > > On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 2:30:30 PM UTC+1, Eric Pyle wrote: >> >> It may be that you need to specify workflowLibs (note capital "L"). >> >> On 5/24/2016 8:56 AM, Jonathan Hodgson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I appear to have Jenkin's ssh server set up correctly, and can connect to >> it and run who-am-i as on this page >> >> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+SSH >> >> whereupon it responds with >> >> Authenticated as: Jon >> Authorities: >> authenticated >> >> But when I try to clone the workflowlibs git repository, as in the >> "Accessing repository" section here.. >> >> >> https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-cps-global-lib-plugin/blob/master/README.md >> >> I get >> >> hudson.AbortException: No such repository exists:/workflowlibs.git >> >> What am I missing? The "pipeline: shared groovy libraries" plugin is >> installed, is there a step I have to do to create the repository on the >> server? >> >> regards >> >> Jon >> >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/5454c77e-38dd-473e-8e1b-316e5be78493%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/5454c77e-38dd-473e-8e1b-316e5be78493%40googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> >> * Eric Pyle * >> Release Engineer >> Lebanon >> +1 603-277-3060 (T) >> +1 603-359-8670 (M) >> [email protected] >> <http://www.cd-adapco.com>http://www.cd-adapco.com >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/bd456802-2c28-4c5e-b514-1967b40051c2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
