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  2. JENKINS-23379

Git rev-parse branch failed because of specified colors in ~/.gitconfig

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    • Resolution: Won't Fix
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    • git-plugin
    • Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 & SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3), Jenkins 1.566, GIT plugin 2.2.1

      The error shows as below after set the Branch name from Additional Behaviours -> Check out to specific local branch.

       > git config core.sparsecheckout
       > git checkout -f 0bd22591afff0f67e84f9ce97365e1772351b3ce
       > git branch -a
       > git rev-parse (detached from 0bd2259)^{commit}
      FATAL: Could not checkout HEAD with start point 0bd22591afff0f67e84f9ce97365e1772351b3ce
      hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not checkout HEAD with start point 0bd22591afff0f67e84f9ce97365e1772351b3ce
      	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$8.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1497)
      	at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:896)
      	at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1252)
      	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:604)
      	at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
      	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:513)
      	at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1710)
      	at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
      	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
      	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:231)
      Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git rev-parse (detached from 0bd2259)^{commit}" returned status code 128:
      stdout: (detached from 0bd2259)^{commit}
      
      stderr: fatal: ambiguous argument '(detached from 0bd2259)^{commit}': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
      Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
      'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
      

      Full Jenkins Console Output has been attached (Jenkins-Git-failed-full-log.txt).

      After analyzed, the error is because of the specified colors set in the ~/.gitconfig.
      The color settings as blow, details can be found from my github:

      [color]
        ui = true
        log = always
        status = always
        add = always
        push = always
        pull = always
        diff = always
        branch = always
        interactive = auto
      [color "branch"]
        current = green bold
        local = yellow
        remote = red
      [color "status"]
        added = yellow
        changed = red bold
        untracked = magenta normal dim
      [color "diff"]
        meta = blue bold
        frag = magenta
        old = red bold
        new = green bold
        whitespace = red reverse
      

      Here the Jenkins job setting:

      Can git plugin "ignore" the settings automatically (the settings like colors). I've Created a question in stackoverflow

          [JENKINS-23379] Git rev-parse branch failed because of specified colors in ~/.gitconfig

          Mark Waite added a comment -

          It can't ignore the settings as far as I know. The git plugin (for better, or for worse) uses command line git to perform its operations by default. That means it is "stuck" with the behaviors of command line git.

          If you'd like to try an alternate implementation, you can add "JGit" as a git implementation in the Jenkins global configuration. It is not as feature rich as command line git, but it covers many of the use cases very well, and does not rely on command output parsing.

          Mark Waite added a comment - It can't ignore the settings as far as I know. The git plugin (for better, or for worse) uses command line git to perform its operations by default. That means it is "stuck" with the behaviors of command line git. If you'd like to try an alternate implementation, you can add "JGit" as a git implementation in the Jenkins global configuration. It is not as feature rich as command line git, but it covers many of the use cases very well, and does not rely on command output parsing.

            ndeloof Nicolas De Loof
            marslo Marslo Jiao
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