Upgrade cordova: cannot install plugins from git urls anymore

Question

I did a cordova/phonegap upgrade and now I cannot install plugins from git urls anymore. Anyone experienced such an issue and already solved this?

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Answer 1

A quick fix is to clone the git locally and provide the path from there. For a plug-in to start working, all it needs is to see the plugin.xml file

So cordova plugin add https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-fast-canvas.git -- fails because

shell.js: internal error Error: EXDEV, cross-device link not permitted '/ -- normal error in Cordova 5.1.0+. Applies to most if not all .git install

Local clone :: git clone https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-fast-canvas.git

And local install cordova plugin add /path/to/phonegap-plugin-fast-canvas

Works.