highlight.js github repo is missing on build

[rwdim]

bower highlight.js#~8.0.0 ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/danielditgens/highlight.js.git", exit code of #128 fatal: remote error: Repository not found.

[michaelficarra]

What command are you running? It looks like you're installing dependencies through bower?

[olleicua]

I got the same error:

$ git clone git@github.com:jashkenas/coffeescript.git

$ cd coffeescript

$ bower install
bower uglify-js#~2.2        not-cached git://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS.git#~2.2
bower uglify-js#~2.2           resolve git://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS.git#~2.2
bower highlight.js#~8.0.0   not-cached git://github.com/danielditgens/highlight.js.git#~8.0.0
bower highlight.js#~8.0.0      resolve git://github.com/danielditgens/highlight.js.git#~8.0.0
bower underscore#~1.5.2         cached git://github.com/jashkenas/underscore.git#1.5.2
bower underscore#~1.5.2       validate 1.5.2 against git://github.com/jashkenas/underscore.git#~1.5.2
bower highlight.js#~8.0.0      ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/danielditgens/highlight.js.git", exit code of #128 fatal: remote error:    Repository not found.

Additional error details:
fatal: remote error: 
  Repository not found.

Are there instructions for contributers somewhere that I'm missing?

Edit: apparently npm install underscore is all I needed. The bower.json file was perhaps a mislead..

[GeoffreyBooth]

Is there a reason we have this bower.json? It doesn’t seem to be used.

[GeoffreyBooth]

We’ve since removed the dependencies from bower.json and now bower install doesn’t throw any errors (though it also doesn’t do anything). The file is still there for other tools to use the CoffeeScript module via Bower.