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Additional info as I think I determined the cause for the problem: 1. As we are using self hosted bitbucket, prior to cloning the repo we configure authentication with netrc...

Update: if I try to use the experimenta authentication (and removed other steps prior to this), the clean check passes but then authentication doesn't work: ```shell $ git "fetch" "--jobs=10"...

@ofalvai, writing the files to the home dir instead does work (although it requires further changes in the workflows, to other steps that also require the same files for updating...