How do I use the JIRA Git Plugin on Windows?

[Paul Stahlke]

Hi, I am trying to setup the JIRA Git Plugin (https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JGIT/JIRA+Git+Plugin) on our Windows server. And I need to connect to our Git repository on a separate Linux machine. The setup instructions on the plugin page are greek to me and look to be tailored to a Linux setup. Can someone help me with what I need to do to setup the plugin on Windows, mainly the first two steps they mention on the wiki page. What do these mean and where do I perform and place these? Thank you.

1. <tt>git clone --bare</tt> the source tree you need on your Jira machine (as the same user Jira runs as)
2. Put private key into <tt>.ssh</tt> dir of the same user Jira runs as. Key must has EMPTY passphrase

[Paul Stahlke · Accepted solution]

I had our Git admin enable HTTP access to the repos, so no SSH key setup was needed after all. All I really had to do was install msysGit: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit. Then I bare cloned the repos on the JIRA server, then setup the repositories in the Git plugin admin page. Works great.

[Michael Geddes]

• Work out where your home directory is for the user that is running the Jira service. You can get this from the logs - just look for user.home (this might be c:\ )
• Under that directory, create a .ssh\config file and put something like:

Host 192.168.1.1
	StrictHostKeyChecking false
	IdentityFile .ssh/id_rsa

• and put your generated rsa private key file as .ssh/id_rsa

[Michael Geddes]

• Work out where your home directory is for the user that is running the Jira service. You can get this from the logs - just look for user.home (this might be c:\ )
• Under that directory, create a .ssh\config file and put something like:

Host 192.168.1.1
	StrictHostKeyChecking false
	IdentityFile .ssh/id_rsa

• and put your generated rsa private key file as .ssh/id_rsa

[Colin Goudie]

Canuck, in regards to the ssh keys, whoever administers your git repositories should know about this.

If you're still stuck and really want this fixed contact me direct. It's a bit involved to use answers for this.

Cheers

[Paul Stahlke]

Colin, thanks for coming to the rescue... We have JIRA installed as a Windows service which I setup manually from the standalone.zip. Our directories are d:\atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.2.4-b591-standalone (APP) and d:\jira (HOME DIR).

I will try to install the msysgit. But yes, I'll need to know how to get the keys and where to place them, too.

Thanks!

[Paul Stahlke]

Colin, thanks for coming to the rescue... We have JIRA installed as a Windows service which I setup manually from the standalone.zip. Our directories are d:\atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.2.4-b591-standalone (APP) and d:\jira (HOME DIR).

I will try to install the msysgit. But yes, I'll need to know how to get the keys and where to place them, too.

Thanks!

[Colin Goudie]

Now the trick will be to ensure you have placed the private keys from the git server into the correct user's .ssh folder, so that's why I asked above how your JIRA is installed. Once we know that I can tell you how to ensure these directories exist etc.. Do you know how and where to get the private keys off the git server?

[Colin Goudie]

Canuck, how is your JIRA running on Windows. e.g. Is it installed a service/via the installer etc..? I've never done this so rather than answer, here's a few tips For the 1st part you will need to have a Windows version of git installed to do the clone. Install msysgit - http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ If it prompts you to choose between putty or tortoise ssh, use putty.