Stuck at fetch due to authentication issue

Question

I have a Jenkins (2.0 Beta-2) server running on Windows 2012 R2 x64, with a new build configured to get source files from TFS GIT (2013). I have already installed the Git fo

Answer 1

After digging for a while I've found that I was not using the correct version of Git for Windows. It is known that the "standard" Git for Windows doesn't work very well with TFS GIT, mainly due to the lack of Kerberos support. I thought I was using the right version, but I wasn't.

As part of the build environment setup, I installed Visual Studio 2015. Along with it, it installs an incompatible version of Git for Windows, the one that doesn't work with TFS GIT (I really don't know why!). Even after installing the Git Credential Manager for Windows, the installed GIT version remains as the incompatible one.

Long story short: I had to manually uninstall both GIT and GCM, and install just GCM - which will then install the correct version of the GIT client during its installation.

After that, just reboot your server and things should "magically" work.