Why does my git checkout not work ?

[james_mccutcheon]

I am running bamboo elastic solution and this is my log when doing a code checkout from my Git bitbucket account:

simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:31	Starting task 'Checkout' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs:task.vcs.checkout'

simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:31	Build always requires a clean checkout
simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:31	Cleaning build directory 'C:\build\CON-TEST-JOB1'
simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:31	Updating source code to revision: 4d35c967b3aecf2f6130ed21cb503b7b8069fb87
simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:31	C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe version
simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:31	Updating source code to revision: 4d35c967b3aecf2f6130ed21cb503b7b8069fb87
simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:31	C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe version
simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:32	Updating source code to revision: 4d35c967b3aecf2f6130ed21cb503b7b8069fb87
simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:32	C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe version
simple	23-Dec-2015 10:03:32	Task was canceled - 'Checkout(4)' of type com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs:task.vcs.checkout.

not sure why its running "git version" for ?

if I do a git clone via a script it works fine and its downloaded 

[rrudnicki · Accepted solution]

Hi James, 

I found the answer below which looks very similar to your case. This looks to be related to a different version of Git between Bamboo Agent and Server. Please have a look:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32116318/setting-up-for-bitbucket

Regards, 
Renato Rudnicki 

[james_mccutcheon]

Firstly thanks for taking the time to respond.

Yes its windows, as for cygwin ... all the AWS elastic images provided by Atlassian has cygwin git installed so I assume it would work. The only versions that dont are old images running on 2008 servers but considering this is using their default image and their default run job then I am guessing that would work.

[Mike Friedrich]

I am assuming that's Windows, I am not familiar with the elastic thing. Are you sure the cygwin git works in bamboo? I have been always using Git for Windows.