Error while trying to install an npm module from git

Question

I forked and module on Github, changed it for my needs and pushed back to git. Now I am trying to install this module with npm with

npm install git+http://github.com/username/modulename.git

But I get the following error:

npm ERR! Command failed: git submodule update -q --init --recursive npm ERR! fatal: O:/Programs/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule cannot be used without a working tree.

What can cause it and how to fix it?

VonC · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-02 18:46:01Z

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After a bit of debugging, I have determined that this actually works if I use the url "https://github.com/nfroidure/ttf2woff2#master" instead.
This is because it is doing a shallow clone, which doesn’t use --mirror, so isn’t a bare repository.

So in your case:

npm install "https://github.com/username/modulename.git#master"

edited Jun 2, 2019 at 18:46

answered Jun 2, 2019 at 7:33

VonC

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