Git / Bower Errors: Exit Code # 128 & Failed connect

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azsl1326 picture azsl1326 · Feb 4, 2014 · Viewed 90.1k times · Source

I am using Bower to install several libraries. For demonstration purposes here, I am installing bootstrap. Regardless of the package, I receive the following errors:

C:\Scott>bower install bootstrap
bower not-cached    git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#*
bower resolve       git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#*
bower ECMDERR       Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github
.com/twbs/bootstrap.git", exit code of #128

Additional error details:
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git/': Failed connect
to github.com:443; No error

I have tried using the following solution to remove the first error - which I found from this search:

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

However, this does not work nor do any of the other solutions found on that page. Searching for a solution for the 2nd error, it seems that setting a username/pwd for a proxy server will resolve the issue if you are on a corporate network/behind a firewall. However, I am not using a proxy server as I am on my home pc/network (windows 7 x64).

Thanks!

EDIT: Command window with errors:

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Answer

ablais picture ablais · Apr 15, 2014

I know this is not "fixing" the problem, but you can use

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

to tell git to use HTTPS instead of GIT which worked out for me to install npm dependencies.

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