git fails if not authenticated, request for login/password not visible to the user

[hohwille]

Expected behavior

As a IDEasy user, I want IDEasy to call git in an interactive way so that I am asked for credentials if needed.

Actual behavior

Step 'Clone or pull repository' failed: Command git failed with exit code 128 - full commandline was /usr/bin/git clone --recursive https://git.company.com/repo/that/requires/authentication.git --config core.autocrlf=false .

Steps to reproduce (bug) / Use Case of feature request (enhancement)

1. fork ide-settings
2. setup a git repo that requires authentication (via HTTPS)
3. configure a repository via settings/repositories/authtest.properties
4. ide repository setup authtest

Related/Dependent Issues

Comments/Hints:

When calling the git command manually in the terminal, I am asked for login and password.
If I have credential manager configured the password is stored and afterwards it also works in IDEasy - so we have a workaround.
However, unless --batch mode is active, I would expect to also get the request for login credentials from git if called from IDEasy.

Affected version:

• Problem reproduced on Windows and MacOS, most likely also on Linux but not tested
• 2025.02.002

[alfeilex]

I removed the credentials via Credential Manager and I get this window for login credentials. In the first attempt, I could not replicate the error.

[alfeilex]

Might be related to #1271

[alfeilex]

Why do we set GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 before every git command? Isn't this causing the problem?

IDEasy/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/git/GitContextImpl.java

Lines 307 to 312 in 1cb05a0

	private ProcessResult runGitCommand(Path directory, ProcessMode mode, ProcessErrorHandling errorHandling, String... args) {
	ProcessContext processContext = this.context.newProcess().executable("git").withEnvVar("GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT", "0").errorHandling(errorHandling)
	.directory(directory);
	processContext.addArgs(args);
	return processContext.run(mode);