git clone command is not working?

Question

I am trying to clone bit bucket repo. Once I execute the following command after installing git I am facing following issue :

$ git clone https://usernam@bitbucket.org/username/reponame.git
Error :fatal: unable to access'https://username@bitbucket.org/username/reponame.git/': 
Failed to connect to hostname port 8000: Connection refused

How can I get past this error message?

Answer 1

An https url should attempt to contact the port 443.

If it tries to contact 8000, that might indicate an intermediate proxy: check git config -l|grep -i proxy , or your environment variable ( env or set|grep -i proxy )

You can also try a curl -L -v https://usernam@bitbucket.org/username/reponame.git to have more information.

Finally, don't forget to try and clone through ssh if https does not want to work: see " Set up SSH for Git ", and git clone git@bitbucket.org:user/repo.git .

Answer 2

Modify your url to use git or ssh protocol for transfer.

eg git clone https://github.com/abcd/bashScripts.git

becomes:

git clone git@github.com:abcd/bashScripts.git