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

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.

Instead to run this command:

 git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git

you should run this command:

 git ls-remote --tags --heads git@github.com:twbs/bootstrap.git

or

 git ls-remote --tags --heads https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git

or you can run git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git but you need to make git always use https in this way:

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

Reference: https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/50

I came across this with my corporate network.

It seemed strange because I've always been using ssh to connect with git and never had an issue.

I tried https and didn't work so I added proxy settings to git's config and all was well

git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:proxypwd@proxy.server.com:8080git config --global https.proxy https://proxyuser:proxypwd@proxy.server.com:8080

And making sure it worked

git config --list