title: Hudson git clone error
body: <p>I have created free-style software project in Hudson.</p>
  
  <p>I want to clone a public Git repository: <a href="http://git://github.com/bret/watir.git" rel="noreferrer">git://github.com/bret/watir.git</a></p>
  
  <p>Build fails with error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Started by user anonymous
  Checkout:workspace / C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.hudson\jobs\watir\workspace - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@1a1f370
  Last Build : #4
  Checkout:workspace / C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.hudson\jobs\watir\workspace - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@1a1f370
  Cloning the remote Git repository
  Cloning repository origin
  $ git clone -o origin git://github.com/bret/watir.git "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.hudson\jobs\watir\workspace"
  Trying next repository
  ERROR: Could not clone from a repository
  FATAL: Could not clone
  hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not clone
      at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:400)
      at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:358)
      at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:676)
      at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:660)
      at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:358)
      at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:833)
      at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:314)
      at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:266)
      at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:948)
      at hudson.model.Build.run(Build.java:112)
      at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:93)
      at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:118)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I do not think the problem is in folder permissions because I have another Hudson job (with SVN repository) that works just fine.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried to clone the repository to .hudson\jobs\watir\workspace from command line, and it works fine:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\&gt;git clone -o origin git://github.com/bret/watir.git "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.hudson\jobs\watir\workspace"
  Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.hudson/jobs/watir/workspace/.git/
  remote: Counting objects: 15203, done.
  essing objects: 100% (5307/5307), done.
  remote: Total 15203 (delta 10052), reused 14532 (delta 9565)
  Receiving objects: 100% (15203/15203), 7.88 MiB | 144 KiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (10052/10052), done.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As far as I can tell, Hudson used either the same Git executable or the same version of it, as command line does.</p>
  
  <p>Command line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\&gt;git version
  git version 1.6.3.2.1299.gee46c
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Hudson:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Started by user anonymous
  [workspace] $ cmd /c call C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\hudson9062544454093366628.bat
  
  C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.hudson\jobs\watir\workspace&gt;git version
  git version 1.6.3.2.1299.gee46c
  Finished: SUCCESS
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Searching the web I have found only one page related to my error message (<a href="http://www.jroller.com/b0b0b0b/entry/hudson_git_plugin_remote_windows" rel="noreferrer">hudson git plugin remote windows slave clone</a>), and it says that the problem is Git not being in path. But in that case, <code>git version</code> would not run from Hudson, right?</p>
  
  <p>Environment:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition, Service Pack 2</li>
  <li>java 1.6.0_14</li>
  <li>Hudson 1.316</li>
  <li>Hudson GIT plugin 0.7.3</li>
  <li>git 1.6.3.2.1299.gee46c</li>
  </ul>