Conan upload fails with a git error

Sonatype Nexus Repository
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Hello,

I am testing a new build solution using “conan build” and “Sonatype Nexus Repository, Community Edition version 3.85” on Windows 11.

I followed the steps from Nexus Help using the following commands:

  1. Create a conan-hosted repository in Nexus named “conan-hosted” with default settings

  2. Declare the remote conan-hosted repository:
    dev@win11> conan remote add conan-hosted http://localhost:8081/repository/conan-hosted --insecure

  3. Add authentification for remote:
    dev@win11> conan remote auth …

  4. Check cots exists in conan cache:
    dev@win11> conan list boost
    … existing …

  5. Try to upload to remote repository:
    dev@win11> conan upload boost/1.86.0 -r conan-hosted

=> fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories: .git
=> ERR: retrieving root repository

Please help with interpreting this error,
Thanks

2

This error isn’t from Nexus its from Conan. I’d hazard from the error it expects the command to be run on a project managed by git but you may have more success asking this question on a Conan support forum.

3

Finally, I managed to get it working : it is a known bug in Nexus Repository.

See: https://github.com/conan-io/conan/issues/16770

The workaround is to enable the Conan bearer token in the “settings / security / realms” section.
After this, it works properly.

4

Its great that you’ve found a solution but the linked ticket doesn’t appear to match the errors described in the original post.