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Installation failed: TypeError: Cannot read property '1' of null

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I am trying to install git-hours on Ubuntu 18.04 and I am getting an error:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-hours/node_modules/promisify-node/utils/args.js:9
  var args = func.toString().match(/function\s.*?\(([^)]*)\)/)[1];
                                                              ^

TypeError: Cannot read property '1' of null
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-hours/node_modules/promisify-node/utils/args.js:9:63)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-hours/node_modules/promisify-node/index.js:79:29
    at Array.filter (<anonymous>)
    at processExports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-hours/node_modules/promisify-node/index.js:60:6)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-hours/node_modules/promisify-node/index.js:112:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-hours/node_modules/nodegit/generate/scripts/generateNativeCode.js:3:13)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:10 (1 by maintainers)

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miramardesigncommented, Sep 26, 2019

For anyone cannot install this tool using new version of node, it seems to be a problem with dependency nodegit. I assign a specific latest version of nodegit in package.json, it works fine.
{
"devDependencies": {
    "git-hours": "^1.3.0",
    "nodegit": "^0.26.1"
  },
  "resolutions": {
    "nodegit": "^0.26.1"
  }
}
Should be a workaround (also fixed #43 ) before the author publish the new version

Where is nodegit’s package.json when installing -g globally?

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fikrikarimcommented, Jul 4, 2019

I got exact problem when installing using node v10.16.0

It runs perfectly when I install using node v6.17.1