I am getting the following error when I try to build my job which was working earlier 

.gitmodules
[submodule "components"]
    path = components
    url = ssh://git@git.bitbucket.com:443/rm/deployed-components.git
 
> /usr/bin/git remote # timeout=10
> /usr/bin/git submodule init # timeout=10
> /usr/bin/git submodule sync # timeout=10
> /usr/bin/git config --get remote.origin.url # timeout=10
> /usr/bin/git submodule init # timeout=10
> /usr/bin/git config -f .gitmodules --get-regexp ^submodule\.(.+)\.url # timeout=10
> /usr/bin/git config --get submodule.components.url # timeout=10
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "/usr/bin/git config --get submodule.components.url" returned status code 1:
stdout:
stderr:
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2675)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2605)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2601)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommand(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1969)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommand(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1981)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.getSubmoduleUrl(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1558)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$7.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1477)
at hudson.plugins.git.extensions.impl.SubmoduleOption.onCheckoutCompleted(SubmoduleOption.java:160)
Caused: java.io.IOException: Could not perform submodule update
at hudson.plugins.git.extensions.impl.SubmoduleOption.onCheckoutCompleted(SubmoduleOption.java:165)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1393)
at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:540)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1217)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:647)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:85)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:519)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1897)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:44)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:101)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:442)
Notifying upstream projects of job completion