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From 1.1 to 1.2 From 2.2 to 3.1

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edited by Boris Folgmann
on 2026/01/19 10:56

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  === (% style="color:#172b4d" %)Cloning a project does not work. Why do I get an "fatal: unable to access ... Could not resolve host" error from Bitbucket?(%%) ===
--(% style="letter-spacing:-0.006em" %)Mostly, this is due to a missing proxy configuration in your Git client. The following example uses git bash to configure the proxy. As an example, we
++(% style="letter-spacing:-0.006em" %)Mostly, this is due to a missing proxy configuration in your Git client. The following example uses git bash to configure the proxy of your company.
 . Order or install git bash. You can install it yourself from [[https:~~/~~/git-scm.com/downloads>>https://git-scm.com/downloads]]
 . (((
--After installation start git bash and use these commands to configure git:
++After installation, start git bash and use the following commands to configure git. (% style="letter-spacing:-0.006em" %)You have to replace (%%)PROXY_NAME and PROXY_PORT by the correct values to make it work.
  {{code}}
--git config --global user.name "John Doe"
--git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com
++git config --global user.name  john.doe@example.com  # Jenkins will use this field to map commits to your user identified by your email address
++git config --global user.email john.doe@example.com  # Bitbucket will use this field to map commits to your user identified by your email address
  # Use the following only if you do not use any Intranet Git repos:
--# git config --global http.proxy http://sia-lb.telekom.de:8080/
++# git config --global http.proxy http://PROXY_NAME:PROXY_PORT/
  # This one is better, you can specify the domain "devops.t-systems.net" you want to use the proxy for:
--git config --global http.https://devops.t-systems.net.proxy http://sia-lb.telekom.de:8080
++git config --global http.https://devops.t-systems.net.proxy http://PROXY_NAME:PROXY_PORT
  {{/code}}
--This config will be automatically saved to your user's //.gitconfig//. In case you use a different proxy to access DevOps-as-a-Service hosted BitBucket projects, use that in the statements above instead of `sia-lb.telekom.de:8080`
++This global git config will be automatically saved to the file //.gitconfig// located in the home directory of your user.
  )))
--1. Older git versions might show TLS errors when connecting to HTTPS servers. Then only a more recent git bash will help.
--1. (% id="cke_bm_750982S" style="display:none" %) (%%)On some notebooks, Windows saves the global .gitconfig to the network drive. Switch it offline if you would not lose your .gitconfig from time to time ...
--1. Best solution to let git use a global config on your local drive is to set the env var {{code language="none"}}XDG_CONFIG_HOME{{/code}} since git will use the file {{code language="none"}}$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config{{/code}} instead if the envvar is set. See [[https:~~/~~/git-scm.com/docs/git-config>>url:https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config||rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="text-decoration: none;" class="external-link"]]
++1. You can set the env var {{code language="none"}}XDG_CONFIG_HOME{{/code}} if you want to have the config placed in another folder. When this env var is set, git will use the file {{code language="none"}}$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config{{/code}}. See [[https:~~/~~/git-scm.com/docs/git-config>>url:https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config||rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="text-decoration: none;" class="external-link"]]