Resolving “Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to bitbucket.org:443”

A while ago, I had this error on BitBucket:

Running git.exe with arguments "fetch --prune" failed with return code 128 and error output: "fatal: unable to access 'https://%account%@bitbucket.org/%user%/%repository%.git/': Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to bitbucket.org:443

A quick search for “Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to bitbucket.org:443” pointed me to a comment by Ludwik Trammer on an answer by Jordfräs:

I resolved the issue by upgrading from git 1.8 to git 2.0.

Which reminded me this was a Windows system, where there is no package manager that verifies how far your non-system software is behind.

One day, I will write a script that finds out about the git version history and inform me of major/minor versions I’ve skipped.

Some notes for that:

• This VM was at “git version 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0” from indeed a very old “Git-1.8.5.2-preview20131230.exe”.
• For version 1.x, the Windows development of Git
  • was at the repository https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit
  • release history was at https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases.
• Now I’m at “git version 2.6.1.windows.1” from “Git-2.6.1-32-bit.exe” from https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/latest.
• For version 2.0+, the Windows development Git
  • is at the repository https://github.com/git-for-windows/git
  • release history is at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases.
  • the latest download is at https://git-scm.com/download/win which will auto-download the 32-bit version and provides manual downloads of the x64 version.

Probably I will need to do something similar for Mercurial/hg in the future as well.

–jeroen

via: git – Unknown SSL protocol error in connection – Stack Overflow