Connection to Git through Jenkins with https is throwing an error

Question

I am trying to connect git with Jenkins but facing an issue The error I am getting

Error Failed to connect to repository : Command "/usr/bin/git config --local credential.username abcdef" returned status code 129: stdout: stderr: error: unknown option `local' usage: git config [options] Config file location --global use global config file --system use system config file -f, --file use given config file

I am giving the username and password but it is not working.I am using below configuration Jenkins Version 1.558 Git Plugin : 2.2.12 Git Client Plugin : 1.19.6 Git server Plugin : 1.6

I tried with credentials from the Jenkins server and able to clone the repository

Answer 1

You have outdated git version on the server, and your plugin tries to use the --local options, which was added AFAIR around 1.7. Try to upgrade your git on the jenkins server (which is inside /usr/bin`) to newer version.