johnpapa / generator-hottowel

Yo generator that creates an Angular app via HotTowel
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git prerequisite for bower to work #156

Closed MartynWynne closed 8 years ago

MartynWynne commented 8 years ago

I tried to get this working today on a brand new VM install of Window 10 and VS 2015 enterprise update 1. Had a few issues, the main one seems to be that https://git-for-windows.github.io/ needs to be installed as prerequisite for bower to work. Plus it has to be that git, not the desktop version.

https://github.com/bower/bower#a-note-for-windows-users

_Windows users

To use Bower on Windows, you must install Git for Windows correctly. Be sure to check the options shown below:_

On top of that I also had

But, I got something up and running in the end.