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Bug 359530

Summary:	Buckminster materialization from a git repository does not prompt for SSH key passphrase when requires, but fails
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Matthew Webber <matthew>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen, thomas
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
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Description Matthew Webber

2011-09-30 04:23:37 EDT

Build Identifier: Version: Indigo Service Release 1 Build id: 20110916-0149

I'm using Buckminster to check out from a remote Git repository. Access is managed by SSH keypair.

If I have a passphrase (note: this is different from a password) on my SSH private key, then materialisation fails immediately  with:

Cloning remote repository ssh://dascgitolite@dasc-git-dev.<removed>/training/bmn54829/workflow.master.git into /scratch/training_ide_git/training/bmn54829/workflow.master.git
ERROR [0001] : org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.JGitInternalException: Exception caught during execution of fetch command
Errors and Warnings
E [0001] : org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.JGitInternalException: Exception caught during execution of fetch command: Exception caught during execution of fetch command
TAG-ID 0001 = Query for workflow.master.feature:eclipse.feature

Note that there is no prompt for my passphrase.

If I then remove the passphrase from my private key, and restart Eclipse, then my CQuery materialises just fine. So the problem is the presence of the passphrase.

We have now discovered that if the "Git Repositories" view is open, the Buckminster materialize prompts for the passphrase and works fine. In fact, if you open the ""Git Repositories" view and then close it, the Buckminster materialize still prompts for the passphrase and works fine.

I guess that there is some initialization that EGit does, which doesn't happen until the view is opened. Either Buckminster needs to make sure that EGit is properly initialized before requested it to do something, or else EGit needs to make sure that it has initialized before performs services on behalf of Buckminster.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Thomas Hallgren

2011-09-30 04:37:10 EDT

Seems like an egit initialization problem. My guess is that the egit UI bundle registers the UI components needed for querying the user about the passphrase. Buckminster has no dependency on this bundle (for good reasons) so we don't activate it.

I think it's up to egit to detect and activate the egit UI so I'll defer this to the egit project.