git pull error "The requested URL returned error: 503 while accessing"

Had the same error while using SourceTree connected to BitBucket repository.

When navigating to repository url on bitbucket.org the warning message appeared:

This repository is in read-only mode. You caught us doing some quick maintenance.

After around 2 hours repository was accessible again.

You can check status and uptime of bitbucket here: http://status.bitbucket.org/

here you can see the latest updated status form their website

bitbucket site status

if Git via HTTPS status is Major Outage, you will not be able to pull/push, let this status to get green

HTTP Error 503 - Service unavailable

Try disabling all the system wide HTTP and HTTPS proxies:

export http_proxy="" 
export https_proxy=""
export HTTP_PROXY=""
export HTTPS_PROXY=""

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