[JENKINS-59327] Allow a downstream job to use credentials from an upstream job

Hi Team,

When I am creating Multibranch Pipeline job which executes another pipeline job as a branch apparently it's not reading git credentials in branch.

So in a branch which is a pipeline script, I have stage stage('git checkout') {

stage('git checkout') {

steps {

git credentialsId: 'My credentials', poll: false, url: 'mygit.git' }}

But it's falling on Windows machine with the following error. When I create just a simple pipeline job with the same stage it's working as should.

From test which I did when I specified credentials in a multibranch job which is managing my script in the branch then it's working.

So apparently git credentials from the stage are ignored.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create Multibranch Job without specified git credentials with script-path where is a script.

2. In a script create step with git checkout and specified credentials

3. Run the branch script and it should fail.

4. Add in Multibranch configuration credentials and run branch script it should work.

```
No credentials specified
No credentials specified
Wiping out workspace first.
Cloning the remote Git repository
Cloning with configured refspecs honoured and without tags
ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin'hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe fetch --no-tags --force --progress MyRepo.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code 128:
stdout: 
stderr: mygitserver: Permission denied (publickey).fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rightsand the repository exists.
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2042)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1761)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$400(CliGitAPIImpl.java:72)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:442)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$2.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:655)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:153)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:212)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:54)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:369)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at hudson.remoting.Engine$1.lambda$newThread$0(Engine.java:93)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Suppressed: hudson.remoting.Channel$CallSiteStackTrace: Remote call to JNLP4-connect connection from mymachine at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1743) at hudson.remoting.UserRequest$ExceptionResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:357) at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:957) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.execute(RemoteGitImpl.java:146) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor391.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteGitImpl.java:132) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy83.execute(Unknown Source) at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1152) at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1192) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep.checkout(SCMStep.java:124) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:93) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:80) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.lambda$start$0(SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:47) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

```

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Originally reported by somedude, imported from: Allow a downstream job to use credentials from an upstream job

• status: Open
  
• priority: Major
  
• component(s): git-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 2
  
• imported: 2025-12-02
  

Raw content of original issue

Hi Team,


When I am creating Multibranch Pipeline job which executes another pipeline job as a branch apparently it's not reading git credentials in branch. 

So in a branch which is a pipeline script, I have stage stage('git checkout') {

    stage('git checkout') {

        steps { 

            git credentialsId: 'My credentials', poll: false, url: 'mygit.git' }}

But it's falling on Windows machine with the following error. When I create just a simple pipeline job with the same stage it's working as should.

From test which I did when I specified credentials in a multibranch job which is managing my script in the branch then it's working. 

So apparently git credentials from the stage are ignored.


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create Multibranch Job without specified git credentials with script-path where is a script.

2. In a script create step with git checkout and specified credentials

3. Run the branch script and it should fail.

4. Add in Multibranch configuration credentials and run branch script it should work.




No credentials specified

No credentials specified

Wiping out workspace first.

Cloning the remote Git repository

Cloning with configured refspecs honoured and without tags

ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin'hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe fetch --no-tags --force --progress MyRepo.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code 128:

stdout: 

stderr: mygitserver: Permission denied (publickey).fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rightsand the repository exists.

 at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2042) 

 at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1761)

 at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$400(CliGitAPIImpl.java:72)

 at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:442)

 at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$2.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:655)

 at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:153)

 at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)

 at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:212)

 at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:54)

 at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:369)

 at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)

 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)

 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

 at hudson.remoting.Engine$1.lambda$newThread$0(Engine.java:93)

 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Suppressed: hudson.remoting.Channel$CallSiteStackTrace: Remote call to JNLP4-connect connection from mymachine at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1743) at hudson.remoting.UserRequest$ExceptionResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:357) at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:957) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.execute(RemoteGitImpl.java:146) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor391.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteGitImpl.java:132) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy83.execute(Unknown Source) at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1152) at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1192) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep.checkout(SCMStep.java:124) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:93) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:80) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.lambda$start$0(SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:47) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

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