“fatal: HttpRequestException encountered.” Error with GitHub/Bitbucket Repositories due to dropping TLS-1.0 support

Question

Problem

I recently encountered the following message when I pushed to a GitHub repo:

\"fatal: HttpRequestException encountered. \" followed by bei

Answer 1

TLS support is discontinued in older versions of git.

Upgrading git on your machine solves this problem.

Download the latest git and install for your machine from here: https://git-scm.com/downloads.