How to I pass GIT's username and password to gradle plugin? - gradle-release-plugin

Question

I'm trying to release using the gradle release plugin but whenever the plugin is using GIT, it's not passing my username and password:
I 'm invoking it as:
I'm using:
C:\GradleReleaseTest>gradle --version
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Gradle 2.11
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Build time: 2016-02-08 07:59:16 UTC
Build number: none
Revision: 584db1c7c90bdd1de1d1c4c51271c665bfcba978
Groovy: 2.4.4
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013
JVM: 1.8.0_66 (Oracle Corporation 25.66-b18)
OS: Windows 7 6.1 amd64
My gradle release configuration looks as:
release {
failOnCommitNeeded = true
failOnPublishNeeded = true
failOnSnapshotDependencies = true
failOnUnversionedFiles = true
failOnUpdateNeeded = true
revertOnFail = true
preCommitText = ''
preTagCommitMessage = '[Gradle Release Plugin] ${release.releaseVersion} - pre tag commit: '
tagCommitMessage = '[Gradle Release Plugin] ${release.releaseVersion} - creating tag : '
newVersionCommitMessage = '[Gradle Release Plugin] ${release.releaseVersion} - new version commit: '
tagTemplate = '${version}'
// May decide to add additional custom tasks here
buildTasks = ['build']
scmAdapters = [
net.researchgate.release.GitAdapter
]
}
The error I'm getting looks like:
C:\GradleReleaseTest>gradle release -Prelease.releaseVersion=1
.0.0 -Prelease.newVersion=1.0.1-SNAPSHOT -Prelease.username=jvergara -Prelease.p
assword=thePassword
:release
:com.mycompany.gradletest:createScmAdapter
:com.mycompany.gradletest:initScmAdapter
:com.mycompany.gradletest:checkCommitNeeded
:com.mycompany.gradletest:checkUpdateNeeded
Running [git, remote, update] produced an error: [bash: /dev/tty: No such device
or address
error: failed to execute prompt script (exit code 1)
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.mycompany.com': Invalid ar
gument
error: Could not fetch origin]
:com.mycompany.gradletest:checkUpdateNeeded FAILED
:release FAILED
Release process failed, reverting back any changes made by Release Plugin.
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':checkUpdateNeeded'.
> Failed to run [git remote update] - [Fetching origin
][bash: /dev/tty: No such device or address
error: failed to execute prompt script (exit code 1)
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://git.mycompany.com': Invalid ar
gument
error: Could not fetch origin
]
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug
option to get more log output.
BUILD FAILED
Total time: 5.912 secs

Answer 1

I managed to resolve this. The problem has nothing to do with the plugin at all, but rather how git itself work.
You either have to use a global config for the credentials or you have to use local config
See, https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials. I used the local version and it works just fine.