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I'm just going to throw all this out there and hope SO can help..
My situation is that I need to npm install -s from a Visual Studio Online hosted git repo. I have seen how to do this from github and bitbucket. I guessed that the process would be the same but when I run npm install, nothing happens. I expected that at a minimum, the index.js, the readme.md and the package.json would be pulled.
I created a simple repo at https://ldcjtctest.visualstudio.com/_git/MyFirstProject
this project contains these files:
I have tried running npm install with ssh and https but both give me the following with verbose logging:
What am I missing?
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Steps for Https:
- Create personal access token
- Command:
npm install git+https://test:[personal access token]@[account name].visualstudio.com/[team project]/_git/[repository].
Steps for SSH:
- General SSH key without passphrase and add the public key to your VSTS.
- Optional, run
git clonewith ssh to do test to make sure the SSH key works fine - Command
npm install git+[ssh address].
Note: Tested with 3.10.10 (npm -v)
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After researching, I discovered that the quickest way to accomplish what I wanted was to create a feed. I just followed the MS documentation on how to do this.
*Note: I had an issue when following the instructions linked here. I kept getting an unauthorized error. It took me a while, but I found out that when running the command vsts-npm-auth -config .npmrc, my .npmrc file was not being created locally, but on a shared drive. when I moved that file to c:/users/<yourself>/ it worked as expected.