fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins.git/':

C:\Users\administrator\git-demo> git init

while trying to clone the repository of jenkins from github below error was occurred

C:\Users\administrator\git-demo>git clone https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins.git

Cloning into 'jenkins'...

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins.git/':?

Failed to connect to 192.168.50.. port 8080 after 21059 ms: Couldn't connect to server

The error was due to proxy setup in the explorer .

Solution

Just unset the proxy and it will start working

C:\Users\administrator\git-demo>git config --global --unset http.proxy

C:\Users\administrator\git-demo>git config --global --unset https.proxy

C:\Users\administrator\git-demo>git clone https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins.git

Cloning into 'jenkins'...

remote: Enumerating objects: 427738, done.

remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.

remote: Total 427738 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 427737

Receiving objects: 100% (427738/427738), 149.09 MiB | 531.00 KiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (285161/285161), done.

Updating files: 100% (11856/11856), done.