Webpack-cli: Installation error

[anyulled]

What is the current behavior?
Whenever I try to instal webpack cli I receive the following error:

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:202:12)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:852:16)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:215:5)
npm WARN addRemoteGit git://github.com/kalcifer/recast.git#bug/allowbreak resetting remote C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-kalcifer-recast-git-bug-allowbreak-1a0638d4 because of error: { 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:202:12)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:852:16)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:215:5)
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' }
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:202:12)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:852:16)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at Socket. (internal/child_process.js:323:11)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:492:12)
npm WARN addRemoteGit git://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git#Feature-getArgument resetting remote C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-ev1stensberg-generator-git-Feature-getArgument-9d0a58a8 because of error: { 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:202:12)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:852:16)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at Socket. (internal/child_process.js:323:11)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
npm WARN addRemoteGit at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:492:12)
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' }
npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes_templates --mirror git://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-ev1stensberg-generator-git-Feature-getArgument-9d0a58a8: Cloning into bare repository 'C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-ev1stensberg-generator-git-Feature-getArgument-9d0a58a8'...
npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes_templates --mirror git://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-ev1stensberg-generator-git-Feature-getArgument-9d0a58a8: fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes_templates --mirror git://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-ev1stensberg-generator-git-Feature-getArgument-9d0a58a8: github.com[0: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Invalid argument
npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes_templates --mirror git://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-ev1stensberg-generator-git-Feature-getArgument-9d0a58a8: github.com[1: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Invalid argument
npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes_templates --mirror git://github.com/kalcifer/recast.git C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-kalcifer-recast-git-bug-allowbre
ak-1a0638d4: Cloning into bare repository 'C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-kalcifer-recast-git-bug-allowbreak-1a0638d4'...
npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes_templates --mirror git://github.com/kalcifer/recast.git C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-kalcifer-recast-git-bug-allowbreak-1a0638d4: fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes_templates --mirror git://github.com/kalcifer/recast.git C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-kalcifer-recast-git-bug-allowbreak-1a0638d4: github.com[0: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Invalid argument
npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes_templates --mirror git://github.com/kalcifer/recast.git C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\git-github-com-kalcifer-recast-git-bug-allowbreak-1a0638d4: github.com[1: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Invalid argument
npm ERR! code 128
npm ERR! Command failed: git -c core.longpaths=true clone --template=C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes_templates --mirror git://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_git-remotes\g
it-github-com-ev1stensberg-generator-git-Feature-getArgument-9d0a58a8
npm ERR! Cloning into bare repository 'C:\Users\alrs\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_
git-remotes\git-github-com-ev1stensberg-generator-git-Feature-getArgument-9d0a58a8'...
npm ERR! fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
npm ERR! github.com[0: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Invalid argument
npm ERR! github.com[1: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Invalid argument
npm ERR!
npm ERR!

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.
npm i webpack-cli -g

What is the expected behavior?
successful installation

Node version: 6.3.1
npm version: 4.5.0
operating system: Windows 10
programming language: Javascript
webpack version: 2.6.0

[anyulled]

Hi, I was checking the issues list and got it working by doing
git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git:// as suggested in #132 .

[evenstensberg]

Yep, just saw. Commented there, need some more info to reproduce.

[dchhetri]

@anyulled suggestion didn't work for me due to a SSL certification issue.

npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.EXE ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git/': SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate
npm ERR!
npm ERR! exited with error code: 128

[evenstensberg]

Yeah, that's the fork messing things up. Let's bundle the discussion at the other thread