HANA Express - Web IDE - Git clone error - cannot open git-upload-pack

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm following OpenSAP development course manual for HANA 2.0 and folloow the exercises.

When in Web IDE, I go to File > Git > Clone repository and input the url of the template files for the course, which is: https://github.com/SAP/com.sap.openSAP.hana5.example

After clicking Ok, I'm getting an error:

Clone request failed

https://github.com/SAP/com.sap.openSAP.hana5.example: cannot open git-upload-pack

Can anyone direct me towards a correct solution? The course itself is already over, so I can't ask there. Thomas Jung (one of the teachers) mentions that I can just import it as a .zip file from Github, but I want to have a fully working connection to repository.
Thanks 

[former_member47571]

I'm running into this same problem of "cannot open git-upload-pack". I feel my setup is very vanilla for Web IDE where I attempted this both from a trial version and from a full SAP Cloud account I am getting this error to connect to the SAP corporate GitHub. If there are certificate installs needed, can someone provide a reference for this? My web searches haven't been successful.

Thanks,

Wes

[Former Member]

I'm having the same problem. Just started using HANA Express and going through the course. Is there a solution out there?

[former_member703978]

Hi colleagues,

To fix the issue you need to generate and save locally a token in Git settings for your user: https://github.wdf.sap.corp/settings/tokens

After that in WebIDE you need to choose Use Token Authentication option and paste the token. Please be advised, you will not be able to see the token in future, so please save it locally.

[Former Member]

Hi Kuatroka,

You may have already tried this but in case you haven't - are you on a restricted network? I find that on a restricted network like a VPN or corporate Wi-Fi connection, you may be unable to clone any Git repository. By switching to a secure but unrestricted network (like home internet or coffee shop internet), it might work. Can you let me know if that works for you?

Thanks,

Annie

[Former Member]

You can also check out this thread: https://answers.sap.com/questions/28743/cloning-hcp-git-respository-in-web-ide.html

This one is in regards to HCP but it might help in case of HANA Express too since we are dealing with the issue of cloning Git repositories in Web IDE.

[Former Member]

Hi, I'm facing the same issue. Vanilla installation of SAP HANA 2 Express VM, and all steps performed as per the guidelines. Webide working fine, but cloning a GitHub empty (only a README.MD file) results with the error: cannot open git-upload-pack

Is there any additional configuration required? Any certificate import required? As per the tutorials, the cloning should work out of the box...

My VM is hosted on my workstation that is connected to internet without proxies. From the host command line I can clone the same empty GitHub repository, just fine.

Thanks for any insight into this!

[Former Member]

Hi, I managed to find out my issue. Probable it is happening to others.

The VM installation is configured to use a dynamic IP address, that will work just fine. However, I set a static one, and it seems that SLES is not automatically using the default gateway to route DNS queries, resulting in failing name resolution out of my network. Once that was solved (using yast to add the gateway as a DNS), git could clone from GitHub with no issues. I trust this will help others that use this configuration.

Thanks