Jenkins time-out while fetching from Github in 10 mins.

Question

I've stuck with this issue while configuring Jenkins for Nightly build. Please note that the repository project "project1" is large and is about 900MB. Please let me know how should I go around this problem.

Started by user anonymous Building in workspace C:\Users\user1\.jenkins\jobs\Nightly Build\workspace Fetching changes from the remote Git repository Fetching upstream changes from [email protected]:MyOrg/projectgroup/project1 ERROR: Timeout after 10 minutes FATAL: Failed to fetch from [email protected]:MyOrg/projectgroup/project1 hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from [email protected]:MyOrg/projectgroup/project1     at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:612)     at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:836)     at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:861)     at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1412)     at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:652)     at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:88)     at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:557)     at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1679)     at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:509)     at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)     at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:230) Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "fetch -t [email protected]:MyOrg/projectgroup/project1 +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code -1: stdout:  stderr:      at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:981)     at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:920)     at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.fetch(CliGitAPIImpl.java:187)     at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.fetch(GitAPI.java:229)     at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:610)     ... 10 more 

Answer 1

I was about to use Workaround #2 but it seems as of git plugin 2.0.3 this can now be configured in the UI, although it is a bit hidden away and is per project.

Go to the configure screen for a project, Source Code Management section, Git, Additional Behaviors, Add, Advanced clone behaviors, Timeout (in minutes) for clone and fetch operation.

I would use workaround #2 as suggested by DevHopeful_2012 if you want a global setting.