Unable to connect to remote repository via SSH in Xcode 7

Exactly the same case as you. Git integration seems completely busted in xcode 7.

The OS just updated to xcode 7 automatically on me. When I was on xcode 6, I could connect to the git server. As soon as I updated to xcode 7, the exact same config stopped working.

I have been trying for an hour or two on my laptop (seperate machine), starting from scratch, ensuring that my passphrase is entered correctly. Nothing works. This is a major regression. How could they have so many betas and not catch this.

I am using a git server on a synology NAS. I require ssh keys. Everything works perfectly from the command line. xcode preferences for adding a remote repository just keeps saying authentication failed. And for the project that already has the remote repository created, I get a "failed to connect to nas: connection refused (-1)" error.

Greg

Just so you know, there is another thread here describing git repositories (local file system) as broken without SSL. Same problem as you describe and also happened with the install of Xcode 7 GM. Xcode 7 beta 6 worked fine. Also broken with Xcode 7.1 Beta 1

EDIT: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/17473

Neil

I tried disabling SSH on my Xcode server and only using HTTPS to access my git repositories. The same issue exists there.

Interestingly this seems to work for me on my Yosemite machine, but fails on a clean install of El Capitan GM seed. The Yosemite machine was using Xcode 6 before it upgraded to Xcode 7. I'm not sure if the upgrade has anything to do with it working there or not.

I will continue to try different approaches to see if I can get anything to work. This is maddening.

I was able to get this working, but honestly, I'm not sure how. I'll outline what I did. Maybe it will help someone else.

I copied a folder with my project from my Yosemite machine (where this was working) to my El Capitan machine.

When I tried to add the repo in the Xcode account preferences on El Capitan, it failed as noted above.

When I tried to push changes from the Xcode Source Control menu, it also failed (never got past preparing to push...)

However, when I made a source change and chose "Commit" from the Xcode Source Control menu and then clicked the "push to remote" checkbox in the lower left corner, it worked! It asked me to authenticate, and that worked fine. It also added the repo to the Xcode account prefs.

Honestly I don't know if this has anything to do with copying an existing project folder and using that. But, it seems once I committed a change, all is good again. I can connect to other repos on the same server and pull them down.

There might be something else I did as I was getting frustrated and trying a bunch of stuff. Sorry that I didn't capture it all.

I hope this helps. Clearly Apple needs to fix this.

In my case, Xcode was having problems with the repository called

ssh://mygithost/~myuser/projects/Project.git

I edited the local Project/.git/config by hand (naughty, probably should have used git config) to read

ssh://mygithost/Users/myuser/projects/Project.git

while Xcode was not open, then reopened the project and Push'ed and all was fine after re=-authenticating.

I believe, from the error message I was getting ('/~myuser/... is not a repository') that Xcode now leaves in the initial / causing misparsing of the ~

YMMV

YMMV,

Awesome. Using '~' was the problem for me. Using the full path with 'Users\username' solved my situation. Luckily I didn't have to edit any config files - I just deleted and then re-added the repository in Xcode preferences. I didn't try any other combinations of '~' and '/' to see if Xcode can still parse '~'. I'm just happy to get it working and not spend extra energy in terminal trying to keep all my remotes up to date!

Thanks!

DG

I have had the similar issue, after updating to Xcode 7, authentication permanently failing. Interestingly, ssh command from terminal works fine with the same credentials. I was using ssh://username@server/path/to/git or ssh://server/path/to/git, entering name and passwd separately.

Then I found somewhere and tried to enter both name and passwd in the URL (ssh://username:passwd@server/path/to/git) and it simply works.

I am having the same problem with ssh. I could not get http to work reliably, so I turned on ssh and it seemed to work better, for a week. I don't know exactly when this issue started, I swear it wasn't happening earlier this week. It's happening only with pulls, not with pushes. I am using Xcode 7.1. I am not going to put a password in the clear in my ssh line (though it does seem to work), so the workaround is a no-go for me.

I struggling with the same problem.

I'll try the un/pw, just to see if that works around the problem ... for a while ...

And here we are with Xcode 9.2 on the eve of 2018 and this is stil broken.

After 2 days of scouring the entire Internet I found your post. And this medium sized security hole is the ONLY thing that works.

At least it works.

THANKS