Git credential fill rejects my input, scheduled on Windows

Question

I want to run a daily task on a Windows server: git-pull + heavy tests.

As I want it to be triggered by a schedule and run from a script, I need the Git credentials to be fed in automatically. I want to use Git credential fill with the syntax key=value

As this is my first time using Git credentials, I may got something basic wrong.

I tried working in both Git Bash (Git extensions --> Ctrl + G) and Cygwin.

There I entered the following lines:

$ git credential fill
protocol=ssh
host=devserver
username=<my user name>
password=<my password>
path=/srv/gitosis/repositories/Matlab.git
<empty line>

Then Git replies with:

warning: invalid credential line:
fatal: unable to read credential from stdin

I also tried to enter only a single line before the empty line and got the same result. I tried only username line, only protocol line, and only host line.

First: What did I do wrong?

Second: What is the correct path to feed?

If I run

git remote -vv

and get:

origin  [email protected]:/srv/gitosis/repositories/Matlab.git (fetch)
origin  [email protected]:/srv/gitosis/repositories/Matlab.git (push)

what is my path?

Third: What is the host name?

Given the output of Git remote, if I run ping devserver and get

64 bytes from 10.10.10.102: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=74 ms

Does it mean that the host is devserver?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use Git Bash to type in your commands, instead of using the Command Prompt. This will solve the stdin problem.

Answer 2

I found that it was an issue with line endings in the Windows command shell. Holding the Alt key, then press 1 and 0 on the numeric keypad (in other words inserting a Line Feed character), followed by pressing Enter on the keyboard got it working for me.