Error: Command failed: git -c core.longpaths=true config --get remote.origin.url

[peterblazejewicz]

Hi,
I'm not perfectly sure the problem is related to this package, but 've receive an error when PSK project is scaffolded with yo polymer on Windows. So far I'm not able to quickly locate possible source of that problem:

npm WARN addRemoteGit Error: Command failed: git -c core.longpaths=true config --get remote.origin.url
npm WARN addRemoteGit
npm WARN addRemoteGit     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:213:12)
npm WARN addRemoteGit     at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
npm WARN addRemoteGit     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
npm WARN addRemoteGit     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:827:16)
npm WARN addRemoteGit     at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:319:11)
npm WARN addRemoteGit     at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
npm WARN addRemoteGit     at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
npm WARN addRemoteGit     at Pipe._onclose (net.js:475:12)
npm WARN addRemoteGit  polymerelements/test-fixture resetting remote C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remotes\git-github-com-polymerelements-test-fixture-git-4485c51b because of error: { [Error: Command failed: git -c core.longpaths=true config --get remote.origin.url
npm WARN addRemoteGit ]
npm WARN addRemoteGit   killed: false,
npm WARN addRemoteGit   code: 1,
npm WARN addRemoteGit   signal: null,
npm WARN addRemoteGit   cmd: 'git -c core.longpaths=true config --get remote.origin.url' }

Expected outcome

No errors produced

Steps to reproduce

Run yo polymer, including all optional settings (WTC, Recipes).

Windows 10
NPM 3.5.2
Node: 4.4.0
Yo: 1.7.0
Git: 2.7.1 Windows (GitHub Desktop client)
generator-polymer: 1.2.10

[Everlag]

I encountered this issue when installing polymer-cli using cygwin. Installing it with command prompt solved the issue.

I have git 2.8.3 in cygwin and git 1.9.5 in command prompt. I'd lean towards git being the issue in this case.

[jodekirk]

I received this error when trying to install polymer-cli using npm behind a corporate firewall blocking ports 22 and 443.
npm -g install polymer-cli

After trying 50 things I got around the error by installing polymer-test-fixture first:
npm i -g @polymer/test-fixture