Error: "Could not find commit hash for master"

[andymerskin]

Hey there—I'm trying to get started with Svelte and running:

Environment:

• macOS 10.14 Mojave
• Node v8.11.4
• degit v2.1.3

Running:

degit sveltejs/template-webpack

... gives me:

! could not find commit hash for master

Double checking that the user/repo is correct, I'm not really sure why it can't find the hash. I tried it with a couple other repos out there and no-go.

Any ideas?

[andymerskin]

Well derp, I was trying to run this on a new Macbook Pro that I hadn't installed Xcode or the Command Line Tools on, so git wasn't ready to go yet. Now that it's installed, I tried degit again and everything worked like a charm.

It may be pertinent in the rare cases when people don't have git properly configured (who even does that?!) that degit properly pass any errors along that may occur like this.

[paulocoghi]

Would be interesting if degit doesn't depend on git to work. I was trying to figure out for weeks why some team mates had the same issue. 😄

[Webzeugmacher]

git update helped on windows 10

[oliverjanik]

I just updated to latest git on Win 10 same problem:

PS C:\Users\Oliver\dev> degit svetlejs/template svetle-test
! could not find commit hash for master

Any more ideas?

[andymerskin]

@oliverjanik Could you make sure git is on your PATH (or at least usable with the git command in your prompt?) It's possible you need to relink it after updating or installing.

[oliverjanik]

Yeah git is usable from the same prompt.

[osdevisnot]

This error manifests itself in Travis CI too. Trying to use degit there currently results in this error:

(node:5343) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: could not find commit hash for master
    at Degit.clone (/home/travis/build/osdevisnot/tslib-cli/node_modules/degit/index.js:170:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/travis/build/osdevisnot/tslib-cli/cli.js:39:15)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:754:12)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3)

[DerBasler]

I had the same problem using it in my wsl shell but had no problem using it in my powershell.
I was using git version 2.11.0 in my powershell and 1.9.1 in my wsl. Maybe that helps someone.

[paulocoghi]

I replaced degit with lukeed/gittar, and it's sufficient for what I need.

It isn't a pure replacement, and maybe doesn't have all the features you are using on degit, but it can suit most use cases.

[paulocoghi]

@docmars , @Rich-Harris

I think we can close this issue, because I don't think anymore that it would be the case to adapt degit to don't depend on git, because it's exactly what gittar does.

We can live with both libraries, each one with its pros and cons.

Degit has more features, but requires git. Gittar is more simple, but doesn't requires git. Each developer chooses the one it sees fit.

[osdevisnot]

Agree with @paulocoghi here. For my small project I ended up using gittar as well.

[bigidea-kz]

maybe you need to write about it in the documentation?

[cogoo]

Setting the cache value to false in the degit options solved this for me:

degit(repo, {
      cache: false,
      force: true,
      verbose: true,
    });

[paulocoghi]

@cogoo, in the most cases, this error occurs when git isn't available/installed.

[cogoo]

@cogoo, in the most cases, this error occurs when git isn't available/installed.

I have git installed. With cache: true it attempts to find the repo from a local cache, which is what caused the error for me

@paulocoghi

[jspinella]

Thanks for saving me some time on this one... same situation, just did a phresh install with Catalina. You'd think the error message would be a little more... helpful.

[alexljamin]

Just updated Xcode in App Store but did not open it. Tried to run the degit and got

! could not find commit hash for master

After starting the updated Xcode for the first time it installed some components and after that, degit command worked just fine

[riazXrazor]

thanks @cogoo it worked !!

[vguhesan]

If you're seeing the following error(s):
`$ npx degit https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper-template#rollup my-app

! could not find commit hash for rollup`

or

`$ npx degit https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper-template#webpack my-app

! could not find commit hash for webpack`

It's because git isn't working. git depends on xcode and xcode requires you to accept it's license agreement.

Try running "git" and if you see the following message:
$ git Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please run “sudo xcodebuild -license” and then retry this command.
then type:
sudo xcodebuild -license and follow instructions for scrolling through the license agreement. At the end, you will need to type "agree" then
At that point, your original command should work fine.

Also if you haven't installed degit you may need to do the following:
sudo npm install -g degit

[masterl]

I have the same error with sveltejs/template.

Doc said to just run degit sveltejs/template svelte-app

Results:

$ degit sveltejs/template svelte-app
! could not find commit hash for master

---

What	Version
Linux Manjaro	18.1.0 Juhraya
Git	2.23.0
Node	12.9.1
NPM	6.11.2
Degit	2.1.4

I use git everyday without any problems.
Cloning the svelte template repo manually works without problems.

[vguhesan]

@masterl did you try what I have suggested above?
#37 (comment)

[masterl]

@vguhesan That doesn't apply.
I'm not on a mac.
I have git installed and configured.

Everything is on the comment, I have git, node, npm, degit all installed.
As I also said above, I can clone the repo directly without any problems.

The issue seems to be on degit itself.

[paulocoghi]

@masterl , can you try again with cache: false ?

[masterl]

@paulocoghi Where do I use that?

running degit --help the cache option doesn't even have a parameter:
--cache, -c Only use local cache

---

I tried running with this flag, but the result was the same:

degit -c sveltejs/template svelte-app
! could not find commit hash for master

[paulocoghi]

@masterl , unfortunately you are right.

As mentioned by @cogoo and @riazXrazor, when using degit on code (not as cli), setting cache to false on the options may solve this problem

But it seems that we can't do the same on cli.

[PlkMarudny]

So, how to disable caching in degit?

[paulocoghi]

@PlkMarudny , this way:

degit(<repo_url>, {
    cache: false
});

[Conduitry]

I was just looking into getting degit to display more helpful error messages when it runs into a problem, and I found that it does display the underlying error if you call it with the verbose -v flag. Does it make sense to always display that error? I'm hoping that will eliminate a lot of questions in Svelte issues and the chatroom about this. In the meantime, now that I know this, I suppose we can tell people to run it again with -v so we can get some sort of idea of what's happening.

Edit: Or perhaps less intrusively: a gentle extra note that's displayed when there's an error with verbose mode off that the user can add -v to get more logging.

[thinkOfaNumber]

I know this thread is covering a lot of different issues now, but I had the same "could not fetch remote":

npx degit "sveltejs/sapper-template#webpack" sapper-test
! could not fetch remote https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper-template
! could not find commit hash for webpack

but it turns out that my .gitconfig in my home directory had an invalid http proxy that I could no longer access. Hope this helps someone.

[bernardoadc]

Would be interesting if degit doesn't depend on git to work. I was trying to figure out for weeks why some team mates had the same issue. 😄

@paulocoghi What if degit supports cloning local repos? That wouldn't work. I think we should properly display error messages so people can act to solve problems, not dodge them

[paulocoghi]

@bernardoadc , you are right 👍 I had not thought about this possibility and, in this case, it is interesting that degit uses git.

Since gittar is a good alternative when all you want is to clone public repos, I believe that we have good options for any case.

[hypersundays]

I know this thread is covering a lot of different issues now, but I had the same "could not fetch remote":

npx degit "sveltejs/sapper-template#webpack" sapper-test
! could not fetch remote https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper-template
! could not find commit hash for webpack

but it turns out that my .gitconfig in my home directory had an invalid http proxy that I could no longer access. Hope this helps someone.

I was getting this same error trying to run degit through npx. Once I installed degit globally, everything worked like a charm

[EitharAlotoom95]

I run this "degit sveltejs/template my-svelte-project" on git terminal not the cmd .. and it works .
just right click then choose git bash here and run the command there . I hope that will be helpful .

[rdela]

fregante's mention above of #242/#207 helped me figure my encounter with this error message out
when I ran it with the -v option per Conduitry's suggestion I got: > destination directory is empty, not helpful.
but the problem was I needed to append the branch, #trunk in this case, because this repo does not have a master branch.

[netaisllc]

Note that Github itself has seemingly begun to default new repos to a main branch.

Today I ran into what looked like a degit issue (! could not find commit hash for master) which actually wasn't degit's problem. There indeed wasn't a master branch. As soon as I created one and ran degit again there was much joy.

[paulocoghi]

A PR adding a check to see which branch is available between main and master can solve the scenario mentioned by @netaisllc .

Edit:

This PR (#243) from @fregante , provides an even better approach: read the default branch.

[rajeeshsays]

D:\ANZ104AngularDemo\ANZ104AngularDemo\angular\taskbox>degit chromaui/intro-storybook-angular-template
! could not fetch remote https://github.com/chromaui/intro-storybook-angular-template
! could not find commit hash for HEAD
Pls give a solution...

[rdela]

hi @rajeeshsays, please open an issue on the repository in question, as:

npx degit chromaui/intro-storybook-svelte-template taskbox

from intro-storybook-svelte-template works fine, and the command that you presumably ran correctly in a supported environment is in their readme:

npx degit chromaui/intro-storybook-angular-template taskbox

[wangjia184]

installed the latest git version 2.34.1.windows.1

Failed with same error

[glayn2bukman]

turns out the github repo is at sveltejs/template not svelte/template and as such the command should be
npx degit sveltejs/template <your-project-name>

[pixelbadger01]

Hello. I am getting this error:

' degit radixdlt/create-scrypto-dapp
! could not download https://github.com/radixdlt/create-scrypto-dapp/archive/75feed25fadafa73dbd8349974d755087afd44b3.tar.gz '

I took the liberty of checking the comments before me, and I can confirm Git is working so I'm just wondering what else I can look into.

Yes the URL is also fine.

[paulocoghi]

... it does display the underlying error if you call it with the verbose -v flag

For @NateDawg360 and everyone else: please use -v (verbose mode) to display the root cause, as already explained on the thread by Conduitry

[Visual-Dawg]

I am also getting this error while using the JS Api I am on Arch Linux, with git installed.
Setting cache to false, solves this.
Enabling verbose does not result in a more descriptive error.

Its the error in the title + that it cannot find the commit hash of the repo