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I am playing with the DXA HTML design on https://github.com/sdl/dxa-html-design/tree/release/1.2 When running bower install (as per instructions in this README) I get an error message

Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github .com/Modernizr/Modernizr.git", exit code of #128 fatal: unable to connect to git hub.com: github.com[0: 192.30.252.128]: errno=No such file or directory

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When trying repeatedly sometimes the same command fails on anther repo, i.e. git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git

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Turns out that my workstation can nicely access GitHub, but not on SSH. So like the error message says the requests to git://github.com fail. The solution is to use HTTPS instead.

Tell GIT to connect over HTTPS instead of SSH:

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

From: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15669091/bower-install-using-only-https

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    typical issue when you work in an office with a paranoid IT department, they have no idea that SSH is actually just as safe as SSL, and simply block all they don't know or think doesn't matter. – Bart Koopman Feb 4 '16 at 6:19

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