How to debug Cannot run program "C:\Program Files\Git" in a Jenkins job?
git, jenkins, testing
Solution
Maybe you incorrectly set the git executable path.
It shouldn't be `C:\Program Files\Git`, but `C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe` (this is similar to JENKINS-6181)
The Git plugin page does mention:
If you are seeing output indicating Git could not clone, something like the output below, go to to the Jenkins configuration settings (not the project settings, the global ones) and change the Git path to a fully qualified path (eg. not "`git`" but "`/usr/bin/git`" or wherever your Git binary is installed).
In your case, check that `C:\Program Files\Git` is indeed your Git installation path.
Problem
I'm using jenkins to build my git project, this is the error I am getting when see the log. I am using git plugin in jenkins. How would you troubleshoot that error message? ``` Started by user anonymous Building in workspace E:\sw\jenkins\workspace\se12 ERROR: Workspace has a .git repository, but it appears to be corrupt. hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Error performing command: git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1180) org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1150) org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1146) org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommand(CliGitAPIImpl.java:962) org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommand(CliGitAPIImpl.java:972) hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:651) at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:88) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Program Files\Git" (in directory "E:\sw\jenkins\workspace\se12"): CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1169) ... 16 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source) ... 22 more Cloning the remote Git repository Cloning repository $ git clone \\SE12\Adempiere370new\.git Fetching upstream changes from $ git clone \\SE12\Adempiere370new\.git ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin' hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Error performing command: git fetch --tags --progress $ git clone \\SE12\Adempiere370new\.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1180) org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1043) hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:651) at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:88) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Program Files\Git" (in directory "E:\sw\jenkins\workspace\se12"): CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1169) ... 14 more ```