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André Alçada Padez
André Alçada Padez

Reputation: 11588

npm install not working on windows with git dependencies

So, in my package.json I have, in dependencies, besides some npm modules, some private git repositories from my company:

devDependencies": {
    "async": "^0.9.0",
    "build-tools": "git+ssh://[email protected]/mycompany/repo.git#master",
    "chai": "^1.9.2",
    "download": "^0.2.1",
    .....
}

If i run npm install, it's working almost everywhere. We mostly use Macs, but there's also another colleague running gitbash on windows and he has no problems with it. I have a colleague with the same setup, windows and gitbash, that when we try to run npm install he gets the error:

fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree

Also, when we change #master to #commit-sha npm installs successfully, so it's not a problem with authentication or whatever.

He is running Git for windows 1.9.4 and npm@latest (2.2.0).

Any help will be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1048

Answers (1)

Igor K.
Igor K.

Reputation: 770

Apparently cleaning up the npm-cache in the [USER]\AppData\Roaming\ folder, then re-installing npm fixes the problem.

Upvotes: 1

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