Jenkins git fetch fails with unknown option --progress

Question

We have been using jenkins to build a project for over two years. We recently updated the jenkins and plugins (we need the maven-3 features), and now it's unable to do a simple git fetch. Here's the error message:

    FATAL: Failed to fetch from https://github.com/powertac/sample-broker.git
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from https://github.com/powertac/sample-broker.git
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:625)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:847)
    ...
Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git fetch --tags --progress https://github.com/powertac/sample-broker.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code 129:
stdout: 
stderr: error: unknown option `progress'
usage: git fetch [options] [ ..]

As you can see, the command line issued by jenkins contains an unknown option --progress. I have searched through the config files and cannot find where this is coming from. Here are the relevant version numbers:

Jenkins: 1.550
JenkinsGitPlugin: 2.0.1
git: 1.7.0.4
OS: Ubuntu 10.04

What am I missing?

zag zag · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-12T23:09:08

Unfortunately it is hardcoded in Git Client Plugin, which is dependency for Git Plugin.

Git --progress option for fetch command become available in version 1.7.1.

Git Client Plugin started using --progress option for git fetch command since version 1.5.0.

Prior to that, in version 1.4.6, Git Client Plugin used git clone command instead of fetch, and made a check of installed git version before deciding whether to use --progress option (which become available for git clone command since git version 1.7.0).

So possible ways to solve your problem, starting with the most straightforward one, are:

get a newer (1.7.1+) version of git on your system; getting up-to-date versions of software on Ubuntu may become a problem, so you might want to check this thread
ask Git Client Plugin team to add support for git 1.7.0, wait until they release new version, and then use it
install older (1.4.6) version of Git Client Plugin; beware that you may also need to downgrade Git Plugin in order to preserve compatibility
patch Git Client Plugin on your own locally
...come up with something even more painful :)

Jenkins git fetch fails with unknown option --progress

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