[BUG] npm install <git remote url> when git group/namespace starts with a number

[albek446]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

This issue exists in the latest npm version

• I am using the latest npm

Current Behavior

Running the following command does not work:

npm install git+ssh://git@github.com:1example/common-code.git

Note that 1example/common-code.git is not a real repository. It is just used to demonstrate the issue.

The problem is that the group/namespace/org part that is named 1example in this example begins with a number. The full format for the npm install command for this is as follows:
<protocol>://[<user>[:<password>]@]<hostname>[:<port>][:][/]<path>[#<commit-ish> | #semver:<semver>]

Here we can clearly see that the : can be used for both the port and the path parts. So I guess that because 1example begins with a number it is treated as the port and therefore this fails. Note that I am not sure this is the case, just a guess based on the behaviors I have seen.

Expected Behavior

I would expect that 1example is treated as a group/namespace/org and not as a port since 1exampleis not a valid port.
I would expect that the npm install git+ssh://git@github.com:1example/common-code.git command works and the package is installed (assuming the command actually points to a real repository which it is not in this example)

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create a git repository inside a group/namespace/org that begins with a number
2. run npm install git+ssh://git@github.com:<group/namespace/org>/<repo.name>.git against the repository that was created in step 1

Environment

• npm: 9.8.1
• Node.js: v18.18.1
• OS Name: Ubuntu 20.04.06 and in Rocky Linux 9.3
• System Model Name: Not Relevant
• npm config: empty

[kashav]

Mind if I work on this?

[kashav]

nvm, I think this is just a consequence of how shell treats colons in URIs.

eg, the following two also fail:

$ npm install git+ssh://git@github.com:6/stopwords-json.git

$ git --no-replace-objects ls-remote ssh://git@github.com:6/stopwords-json.git

[wraithgar]

Fixed by npm/npm-package-arg#197