Attempting to use git publisher with command line git - get following error when attempt to use git-plugin with ssh credentials (seems to also happen with username/password).

Adding commands

git config --global user.email "YYYYY@ZZZZ.com"
git config --global user.name "<username from credentials>"

as a build step made this work.

git publisher/git-client should preset these locally using the ssh-credentials so we dont need to duplicate them by adding a build step or adding to the build slaves - should be provided from the credentials.

ERROR: Failed to push merge to origin repository
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not apply tag jenkins-ZipManagerTag-12-SUCCESS
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.tag(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1201)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.tag(GitAPI.java:274)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler$RPCRequest.perform(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:326)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler$RPCRequest.call(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:301)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler$RPCRequest.call(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:260)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:121)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:49)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:325)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:68)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
at ......remote call to dynamic (i-037efed3)(Native Method)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1361)
at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:221)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:753)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:179)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy56.tag(Unknown Source)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl.tag(RemoteGitImpl.java:481)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitPublisher.perform(GitPublisher.java:226)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:45)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:764)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:724)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:185)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:671)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1769)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:374)
Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git tag -a -f -m Jenkins Build #12 jenkins-ZipManagerTag-12-SUCCESS" returned status code 128:
stdout:
stderr:

• • • Please tell me who you are.

Run

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'ec2-user@ip-10-39-106-202.(none)')

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1591)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1567)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1563)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommand(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1249)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommand(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1261)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.tag(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1199)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.tag(GitAPI.java:274)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler$RPCRequest.perform(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:326)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler$RPCRequest.call(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:301)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler$RPCRequest.call(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:260)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:121)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:49)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:325)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:68)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Build step 'Git Publisher' marked build as failure