Do I need to install git on the Bamboo server if I'm using BitBucket server?

Question

There have been changes (merges) from a branch into the develop branch, however, the build can not seem to follow this. An exception is thrown regarding a table constraint that tries to insert a commit as null.

Error stated in Bamboo plan:
Plan 'CI-xxx' could not be started. Exception: Could not execute JDBC batch update; SQL [insert into COMMIT_FILES (COMMIT_ID, COMMIT_FILE_NAME, COMMIT_FILE_REIVISION) values (?, ?, ?)]; constraint [null]; nested exception is org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException: Could not execute JDBC batch update
(06 Mar 2018, 1:02:04 PM)

We are using Bamboo 5.12 on RHEL 5.x. We have an integration with BitBucket installed on a different server and wondering if the Bamboo server also needed a local copy of git installing.

Mirek · Answer

That error doesn't say that you need to have GIT installed. Wondering what kind of integration you are having (App Links or else?) but in any way I think is should not be required unless your Bamboo server is used also as an local agent.

Christian Glockner · Answer

Hi Johnathan,

Bamboo does have a bundled Java-based version of git (called jgit), which is enough to get started, but we strongly recommend installing git proper separately.

Cheers,

Christian

Premier Support Engineer

Atlassian