wp-env start command fails with GitError

[saint-hilaire]

Description

Hi all, thanks for this awesome package. I've used WordPress for a few years, but am quite new to developing it, gutenberg, and node.js. I thought I'd share some problems I had while trying to get wp-env to start.

When I try to start a local WordPress environment with wp-env start , the command fails with a GitError, thrown by the simple-git library, while trying to clone WordPress (see screenshot below). Because that repository is quite large, I prefer avoiding that action, by keeping a local copy of the code base, and pointing a .wp-env.json at my local copy, with the configuration "core": "/path/to/local/WordPress", which seems to work well.

However, wp-env start still fails with a GitError - this time, while trying to clone PHPUnit (see screenshot). Unfortunately, glancing over the code of wp-env, I see no workaround to this problem.

Expected behavior: wp-env sucessfully starts a local environment, with and without the configuration "core": "/path/to/local/WordPress"

Actual behavior: The command wp-env start fails with the simple-git library's GitError

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

1. cd /path/to/some/local/wordpress-theme
2. wp-env start
3. wp-env throws GitError
4. In the current directory, add the file .wp-env.json, containing the configuration "core": "/path/to/some/local/WordPress"
5. wp-env start
6. Still throws GitError

Screenshots, screen recording, code snippet

GitError while trying to clone WordPress core

GitError while trying to clone PHPUnit

Environment info

• Ubuntu 24.04, running in a Qemu virtual machine
• wp-env 10.8.0
• node v20.17.0
• Docker 27.3.1, build ce12230

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[mahmoudsaeed]

I encountered the same error, but I was able to resolve it by configuring Git to use HTTP/1.1 instead:

git config http.version HTTP/1.1