fatal: could not read Username for, No such device

Question

In my Jenkins job, I am configuring git in the following way:

sh("git config user.email [email protected]")
sh("git config user.name my-user-name")
sh("git tag ${BUILD_NUMBER}")
sh("git push origin --tags")

However, on the last line, when I try to push to my repository, I get the following error about the repository:

fatal: could not read Username for 'http://my-git-repo.com:8000': No such device or address

What's wrong and how can I make it push to the repository?

Answer 1

You're looking for credential.username. I don't know about the passphrase, but if you dislike http://username:[email protected]:8000 then put the credentials in your Jenkinsfile like so:

The second most common type of Credentials is "Username and Password" which can still be used in the environment directive, but results in slightly different variables being set.

environment {
   SAUCE_ACCESS = credentials('sauce-lab-dev')
}

This will actually set 3 environment variables:

SAUCE_ACCESS containing <username>:<password>
SAUCE_ACCESS_USR containing the username
SAUCE_ACCESS_PSW containing the password

credentials is only available for Declarative Pipeline. For those using Scripted Pipeline, see the documentation for the withCredentials step.