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Bower - ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/angular/bower-angular.git", exit code of #128

I’m currently switching from NuGet to Bower as my client side package manager. The process is not going as smoothly as I hoped. During the process I got a range of problems.

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One of the problems was that Bower throw the following error when I tried to install the Bower packages:

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ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/angular/bower-angular.git", exit code of #128

On StackOverflow I found some solutions that mentioned altering your global git config, but I would prefer not to do that if possible. So how did I fix it?

I opened up a command prompt, browsed to the location of my bower.json file  and tried to do a bower install from there:

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And this succeeded! Now I moved back to Visual Studio and invoked Bower from there. And believe it or not, it worked Verwarde emoticon.

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Anyone with a clue why this fixed the problem?

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