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fabianmoronzirfas
fabianmoronzirfas

Reputation: 4121

Why does bower install github/repo not clone my bower.json?

When I install a library from a git repo via: 

bower install [email protected]:fabiantheblind/p5.js.git --save

the component gets cloned into my bower_components but there is no bower.json in the folder. Just a .bower.json.

Why is that so and how can I fix this?

I also get the output: 

bower invalid-meta  p5.js is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  p5.js is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json

But the entries are there.

(The final aim is to use grunt-wiredep to install dependencies automagically. See my open issue here )

Upvotes: 4

Views: 697

Answers (1)

fabianmoronzirfas
fabianmoronzirfas

Reputation: 4121

Okay. After fiddeling a bit more I got the answer:

My clone of the repo had the bower.json but I did not create a tag for it. So bower was still looking at the latest tag 0.3.6 where no bower.json was present.
By creating the tag 0.3.7 the problem is solved.

Upvotes: 2

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