Question

I am trying to do a git pull/push using jgit’s api with the following code

org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git.open(theRepoFile).pull().call()

but I am getting exceptions

JSchException Auth fail
com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect (Session.java:461)
org.eclipse.jgit.transport.JschConfigSessionFactory.getSession (JschConfigSessionFactory.java:116)
org.eclipse.jgit.transport.SshTransport.getSession (SshTransport.java:121)
org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh$SshPushConnection.<init> (TransportGitSsh.java:306)
org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh.openPush (TransportGitSsh.java:152)
org.eclipse.jgit.transport.PushProcess.execute (PushProcess.java:130)
org.eclipse.jgit.transport.Transport.push (Transport.java:1127)
org.eclipse.jgit.api.PushCommand.call (PushCommand.java:153)

Even though using cgit pull and pushing works.

I tried checking SO for example code

Java git client using jgit

but the above question does not provide a complete coded example of what is necessary to do a git pull with a remote repo that is normally authenticated via ssh keys. There should be a way to get the credential information from ~/.ssh/ or the windows equivalent.

Answer 1

The problem is Jsch does not support ssh-agents out of the box. One will need to configure https://github.com/ymnk/jsch-agent-proxy to get it to work.

An alternative is to make your own org.eclipse.jgit.transport.CredentialsProvider and set the org.eclipse.jgit.transport.CredentialItem to the correct values (by requesting them from the user or looking up a file). You can change the default CredentialsProvider with org.eclipse.jgit.transport.CredentialsProvider/setDefault

See my clojure library dj for details: https://github.com/bmillare/dj/blob/library/src/dj/git.clj