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UnicodeDecodeError installing legit from GitHub

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pip 1.5.4, python 2.7.6

> py -m pip install https://github.com/kennethreitz/legit
Downloading/unpacking https://github.com/kennethreitz/legit
Cleaning up...
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 278, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 1197, in prepare_files
    do_download,
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 1375, in unpack_url
    self.session,
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\download.py", line 582, in unpack_http_url
    unpack_file(temp_location, location, content_type, link)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\util.py", line 627, in unpack_file
    and is_svn_page(file_contents(filename))):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\util.py", line 210, in file_contents
    return fp.read().decode('utf-8')
  File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

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dstufftcommented, Mar 22, 2017

@pwaller it has an error message now:

$ pip install https://github.com/kennethreitz/legit
Collecting https://github.com/kennethreitz/legit
  Downloading https://github.com/kennethreitz/legit
     - 92kB 3.6MB/s
  Cannot unpack file /private/var/folders/14/9jkprxq17f30vp_2wbfw79780000gn/T/pip-QcRZcu-unpack/legit (downloaded from /private/var/folders/14/9jkprxq17f30vp_2wbfw79780000gn/T/pip-PJXNfN-build, content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8); cannot detect archive format
Cannot determine archive format of /private/var/folders/14/9jkprxq17f30vp_2wbfw79780000gn/T/pip-PJXNfN-build

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pwallercommented, Mar 22, 2017

@dstufft, even if the use case is bad, the error message is still not informative and confusing for anyone unfortunate enough to hit this accidentally. Is there any way that could be improved, perhaps by detecting that the content type is wrong, or something like this?