🐛 BUG: npm init astro fails - "could not find commit hash for HEAD"

[tomasmendes01]

What package manager are you using?

npm

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Describe the Bug

could not find commit hash for HEAD
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path C:\laragon\www\Portfolio
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c create-astro

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2021-07-19T00_34_19_517Z-debug.log

Steps to Reproduce

1. npm init astro
2. Select anything (in my case i'm selecting Portfolio but i've already tested all the remaining options)
3. Error after > Copying project files...!

Link to Minimal Reproducible Example (Optional)

No response

[chuygil]

do you have git installed?

[jasikpark]

If I'm not wrong, degit shouldn't require git, no?

[chuygil]

It is my understanding that it does. I could be wrong, was reading through this issue

[jasikpark]

Wack. I honestly would have thought there was something like libgit2 but for JS

[FredKSchott]

I think it uses the Github API and not git. In either case, this is out of scope for us and a problem in degit (that may be related to your machine). Sorry about that! In that case, you can clone (or download as a tarball) the example yourself from Github.