How to I pass GIT's username and password to gradle plugin?

Question

I'm trying to release using the gradle release plugin but whenever the plugin is using GIT, it's not passing my username and password:

I 'm invoking it as:

I'm using:

C:\GradleReleaseTest>gradle --version

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 2.11
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2016-02-08 07:59:16 UTC
Build number: none
Revision:     584db1c7c90bdd1de1d1c4c51271c665bfcba978

Groovy:       2.4.4
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013
JVM:          1.8.0_66 (Oracle Corporation 25.66-b18)
OS:           Windows 7 6.1 amd64

My gradle release configuration looks as:

release {
    failOnCommitNeeded = true
    failOnPublishNeeded = true
    failOnSnapshotDependencies = true
    failOnUnversionedFiles = true
    failOnUpdateNeeded = true
    revertOnFail = true
    preCommitText = ''
    preTagCommitMessage = '[Gradle Release Plugin] ${release.releaseVersion} - pre tag commit: '
    tagCommitMessage = '[Gradle Release Plugin] ${release.releaseVersion} - creating tag : '
    newVersionCommitMessage = '[Gradle Release Plugin] ${release.releaseVersion} - new version commit: '
    tagTemplate = '${version}'
    // May decide to add additional custom tasks here
    buildTasks = ['build']
    scmAdapters = [
        net.researchgate.release.GitAdapter
    ]
}

The error I'm getting looks like:

C:\GradleReleaseTest>gradle release -Prelease.releaseVersion=1
.0.0 -Prelease.newVersion=1.0.1-SNAPSHOT -Prelease.username=jvergara -Prelease.p
assword=thePassword
:release
:com.mycompany.gradletest:createScmAdapter
:com.mycompany.gradletest:initScmAdapter
:com.mycompany.gradletest:checkCommitNeeded
:com.mycompany.gradletest:checkUpdateNeeded
Running [git, remote, update] produced an error: [bash: /dev/tty: No such device
 or address
error: failed to execute prompt script (exit code 1)
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.mycompany.com': Invalid ar
gument
error: Could not fetch origin]
:com.mycompany.gradletest:checkUpdateNeeded FAILED
:release FAILED
Release process failed, reverting back any changes made by Release Plugin.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':checkUpdateNeeded'.
> Failed to run [git remote update] - [Fetching origin
][bash: /dev/tty: No such device or address
error: failed to execute prompt script (exit code 1)
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://git.mycompany.com': Invalid ar
gument
error: Could not fetch origin
]

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug
option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 5.912 secs

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 16 '16 at 01:58

I managed to resolve this. The problem has nothing to do with the plugin at all, but rather how git itself work.

You either have to use a global config for the credentials or you have to use local config

See, https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials. I used the local version and it works just fine.

How to I pass GIT's username and password to gradle plugin?

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