Jenkins - using GIT_ASKPASS to set credentials

Question

I've set up some credentials in Jenkins for bitbucket and double-checked the Credentials settings (e.g. logging in manually) however when I try it in Jenkins it just spins forever giving this output:

> git config remote.origin.url <bitbucket url> # timeout=10 Fetching upstream changes from <bitbucket url> > git --version # timeout=10 using GIT_ASKPASS to set credentials <bitbucket account email> Bitbucket > git fetch --tags --progress <bitbucket url> +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* > git fetch --tags --progress <bitbucket url> +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* 

Note that the URL is fine when public. But when set to Private it simply fails with no output.

Is there anyway to debug this in a bit more detail?

Answer 1

I had a similar issue, with Jenkins on a Windows server. I installed git with credentials manager and whenever it tried to checkout a private repository, it would wait for me to input credentials manually in the server. Disabling the git credential manager fixed it for me.

I already had an option to input credentials in the git plugin so didn't need a separate credentials manager.

Answer 2

This is on MacOSX. I changed the Jenkins setting on Git path to /usr/local/git as well as unset the credential.helper using git config, both don't work.

Finally, the problem was resolved by creating a default keychain file for jenkins in ~jenkins/Library/Keychains folder. Herewith is the steps...

• sudo su jenkins
• mkdir ~jenkins/Library/Keychains
• cd ~jenkins/Library/Keychains
• security create-keychain -p [pwd] ./Login.keychain
• security login-keychain -d user -s ./Login.keychain
• check default keychain setup properly
security default-keychain
• git fetch --tags --progress https://github.com/....git +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/

After that, the github userid/password is stored in jenkins default keychain and it will be used on jenkins build.