Since yesterday October 28th I am unable to connect to my company repositories on GitLab.com.
We use a dockerized Theia IDE with git installed and I use a credential.helper to log onto gitlab: i.e. I have a .gitconfig file in my root of the kind:
[user]
name = <my-gitlab-user>
email = <my-user-email>
[credential]
helper = store
and a git-credentials file of the kind:
https://<my-gitlab-user>:<my-gitlab-pw>@gitlab.com
Until 2 days ago I was able to clone/pull/push without issues, but since yesterday for such operations I get an error of the kind:
→ git pull
fatal: unable to access 'https://gitlab.com/my/path/to/my-repo.git/': Failed to connect to gitlab.com port 443: Connection refused
The curios thing is that since my whole dev team uses the same container I use for my IDE, one would expect that we all have issues with. Instead, the issue seems to impact only some of us: i.e. for the same repo with the same dockerized IDE, some of us can pull/push without problems and others like me cannot do anything with the remote repo (i.e. every pull/push/fetch results in the above error). Yes, I am not the only one with the issue, but there are people without issues.
The other worrying thing is that I have the same issues also on my Windows machine and on my personal Mac laptop. Just for an experiment, I created a Debian container for scratch, installed git and tried to clone a public repo from GitLab: baaam, same issue, but after few tries the clone worked, after few others did not.
My git version on my container IDE is:
→ git --version
git version 2.11.0