jenkins+maven ignoring git global config

Question

I'm trying to run a maven build that utilizes frontend-maven-plugin to run bower. Bower in turn executes git from the commandline to download the dependencies. Our firewall blocks the git:// protocol, so I ran git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git:// . However, it appears that it is ignoring it:

[INFO] --- frontend-maven-plugin:0.0.26:bower (bower install) @ janus --- [INFO] Running 'bower install' in D:\\Jenkins\\workspace\\janus [INFO] bower bootstrap#~3.3.5 not-cached git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#~3.3.5 [INFO] bower bootstrap#~3.3.5 resolve git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#~3.3.5 [ERROR] bower bootstrap#~3.3.5 ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git", exit code of #128 fatal: unable to connect to github.com: github.com[0: 192.30.252.129]: errno=No error

I've fully updated and restarted Jenkins, but no luck. The same command executed from the commandline works correctly.

Answer 1

Figured it out. Jenkins is running on Windows under the LocalSystem account. The "global" git config is actually per-user.

• Using psexec, run cmd as LocalService: psexec -i -s -d CMD
• In the cmd prompt that opens, execute git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://