How to resolve bower issue: “ENORESTARGET Tag/branch master does not exist”

Question

I cannot seem to get bower working on my current project. The project began as a yeoman \'angular\' app a couple weeks ago, and now cannot remember exactly what I did, nor c

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and removed the git files as suggested in a previous answer.

NG.

Then I removed bower.json. That fixed the problem.

Fortunately I work in a VM environment and fortunately I took a snapshot before I started deleting stuff (highly recommended practice). So I restored the snapshot and applied the right fix:

  rm bower.json
  bower init

bower init asks a bunch of questions. I pretty much took the defaults. It restored my bower.json dependencies based on what I had already installed in bower_components

Voila!

My unloadable package now loads.