"Exit code: 1" when running "yarn install" for BitBucket repo

Question

I had a public github repo in the `dependencies` section of my `package.json`, and it worked fine. It looked like this:

> git+ssh://git@github.com/TheUser/TheRepo.git#TheCommitHash

I tried adding another one (a private BitBucket repo that I've created):

> git+ssh://git@bitbucket.org/stremio/stremio-qml-kit.git#be6d087ad9a481519a4766da893c3be74a6b8819

and when I ran `yarn install`, I got:

yarn install v1.2.0
[1/4] Resolving packages...
error Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: git
Arguments: archive --remote=ssh://git@bitbucket.org/stremio/stremio-qml-kit.git refs/heads/master package.json
Directory: /home/stefan/Desktop/jobsrc/wifi-setup
Output:

info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.

Any ideas?

**Note:** I tried running this manually:

> git archive --remote=ssh://git@bitbucket.org/stremio/stremio-qml-kit.git refs/heads/master package.json

and got:

fatal: sent error to the client: git upload-archive: archiver died with error
remote: fatal: pathspec 'package.json' did not match any files
remote: git upload-archive: archiver died with error

Eduard Michalík · Answer

Old issue, but for anyone coming across this 3+ years later:

Ensure you have a package.json in your private repository. A minimal setup generated from npm init / yarn init will suffice.

{
  "name": "private-package-name",
  "version": "0.1",
  "description": "short description",
  "repository": "git@bitbucket.org:user/repo.git",
  "author": "you",
  "license": "MIT",
  "private": true
}

Salini Nair Avanupurath · Answer

Did anyone manage to fix this issue?

Faelks · Answer

+1 Same issue with bitbucket private repositories.