Adding remote git repository with git:// protocol

[Mario Fraiss]

Hy community,

We have installed FishEye successfully and now we tried to add a remote git repository. This repository is on our own server (Ubuntu LTS with gitolite as server environment).

We tried to add the git repository, by the following repository url:
1) git://git.company.com:repositoryname

and selected "Generate key pair for ssh" as authentication-method. Further we added the public key to our git-server for allowing login as read-user. If we clone our git-repository at a development machine we use this repository location (TortoiseGit e.g.):

2) git@git.company.com:repositoryname

Our Problem:

FishEye says, that if we use the repository-url mentioned above (1):

The 'git' protocol does not allow authentication

Our company policies says, that git-repositories have not to be exposed by using http:// or https://.

How can we achieve this? Thanks for your assistance and greetings from Austria, Europe.

[lpater · Accepted solution]

What FishEye does behind the scenes is run git clone with the provided url.

To indicate that's it's an ssh url it needs to either be:

git@git.company.com:repositoryname

(note the colon before the repositoryname (instead of dash))

alternatively:

ssh://git@git.company.com/repositoryname

should also work. In both of these the 'git' before the @ is actually the username.

Please see https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/Git for more details.

[Mario Fraiss]

Hi,

To clarify: We created a user "fisheye" on our git-server, it's key is stored in fisheye@servername.pub. We granted read-rights to this user to the repository "testproject" and used the connection string:

ssh://fisheye@our.server.com/testproject

and it fails with - i cannot imagine why.. :|

Error testing connection.
Error talking to repository:

Der Befehl ""null"" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
konnte nicht gefunden werden.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

at com.atlassian.fisheye.git.GitScmConfig.testConnection(GitScmConfig.java:158)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.RepositoryConfig.testConnection(RepositoryConfig.java:444)
at com.atlassian.fisheye.spi.admin.impl.DefaultRepositoryAdminService.testConnectionFor(DefaultRepositoryAdminService.java:538)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1962.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

Connection failed.

[Mario Fraiss]

Hey,

Your answer led me to the solution. We have solved our issue :)

Thanks

[lpater]

Glad it helped. Could you please share your solution here, so others might find it as well?

Thanks

[lpater]

Are you able to run git clone from the machine that runs FishEye as the fisheye user? If not it might be a gitolite configuration problem.

Also: check your username. From what I see cloning from gitolite you should always use the shared username for ssh ('git' usually) - and the actual 'git-side' username is determined based on the ssh key.

[lpater]

Hi Mario,

The git:// protocol doesn't in fact support authentication - it's a property of the protocol, not of FishEye (see for example http://git-scm.com/book/ch4-1.html)

What you're using in TortoiseGit seems in fact like using ssh. (gitolite seems to support either ssh or http) Try specifying

git@git.company.com:repositoryname

in the FishEye setup dialog. This will use ssh, using the ssh key you've generated, and should allow you to connect to your repository.

[Mario Fraiss]

Hi Lukasz,

thank you for your answer. Additional information:

Our company policy forces that we need to specify our ssh-connection by using a username e.g. "johndoe".

We tried it with your string, and get the following error-message - any ideas whats going wrong?

Error testing connection.
Error talking to repository:

fatal: 'git@git.company.at/repositoryname' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

at com.atlassian.fisheye.git.GitScmConfig.testConnection(GitScmConfig.java:158)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.RepositoryConfig.testConnection(RepositoryConfig.java:444)
at com.atlassian.fisheye.spi.admin.impl.DefaultRepositoryAdminService.testConnectionFor(DefaultRepositoryAdminService.java:538)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1962.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

Connection failed.