Hi, our organisation is moving from on-site hosted SVN for our source control to using GitHub. I’ve been looking into how to pull from the GH repo and do a build in Jenkins, as we previously did with SVN. I’ve followed the steps from Authenticating with GitHub on Jenkins CI using a GitHub App and had our infrastructure people create a GH App for me. They gave me the app ID and private key. I installed that as a credential in Jenkins, created a new project using GH for SCM and pointed it at my repo. I haven’t even tried testing the webhook yet to see if it will build on changes, but have just been triggering builds manually. And it works. Sometimes.
Sometimes, it works as expected and the start of the output looks like this:
Started by user [me]
Running as SYSTEM
Building on the built-in node in workspace path\to\workspace
The recommended git tool is: NONE
using credential [redacted]
> git.exe rev-parse --resolve-git-dir path\to\workspace\.git # timeout=10
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
> git.exe config remote.origin.url https://github.com/myorg/myrepo.git # timeout=10
Fetching upstream changes from https://github.com/myorg/myrepo.git
> git.exe --version # timeout=10
> git --version # 'git version 2.50.0.windows.2'
using GIT_ASKPASS to set credentials Campus Resources Github access
Setting http proxy: server:port
> git.exe fetch --tags --force --progress -- https://github.com/myorg/myrepo.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* # timeout=10
> git.exe rev-parse "refs/remotes/origin/main^{commit}" # timeout=10
Checking out Revision [redacted] (refs/remotes/origin/main)
> git.exe config core.sparsecheckout # timeout=10
> git.exe checkout -f [redacted] # timeout=10
Commit message: "Adding .gitignore"
> git.exe rev-list --no-walk [redacted] # timeout=10
[workspace] $ cmd.exe /C "path\to\maven\bin\mvn.cmd -Ddependency.locations.enabled=false clean install && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
... etc
But sometimes, it just fails with this:
Started by user [me]
Running as SYSTEM
Building on the built-in node in workspace path\to\workspace
The recommended git tool is: NONE
using credential [redacted]
> git.exe rev-parse --resolve-git-dir path\to\workspace\.git # timeout=10
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
> git.exe config remote.origin.url https://github.com/myorg/myrepo.git # timeout=10
Fetching upstream changes from https://github.com/myorg/myrepo.git
> git.exe --version # timeout=10
> git --version # 'git version 2.50.0.windows.2'
using GIT_ASKPASS to set credentials Campus Resources Github access
Setting http proxy: server:port
> git.exe fetch --tags --force --progress -- https://github.com/myorg/myrepo.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* # timeout=10
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from https://github.com/myorg/myrepo.git
at PluginClassLoader for git//hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:998)
at PluginClassLoader for git//hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1239)
at PluginClassLoader for git//hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM._checkout(GitSCM.java:1310)
at PluginClassLoader for git//hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1277)
at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:540)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1250)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:649)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:85)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:522)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1842)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:44)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:456)
Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git.exe fetch --tags --force --progress -- https://github.com/myorg/myrepo.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code 128:
stdout:
stderr: remote: Invalid username or token. Password authentication is not supported for Git operations.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/myorg/myrepo.git/'
at PluginClassLoader for git-client//org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2844)
at PluginClassLoader for git-client//org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2189)
at PluginClassLoader for git-client//org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:638)
at PluginClassLoader for git//hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:996)
... 12 more
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
Finished: FAILURE
The server is a Windows Server 2019 and exists on private address space on our network, not exposed to the wider internet. I’ve set a proxy in git using:
git config --global http.proxy http://proxyserver:port
Any help would be appreciated.
Jenkins setup:
Jenkins: 2.540
OS: Windows Server 2019 - 10.0
Java: 21.0.3 - Amazon.com Inc. (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)
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