Error while using "npm init gatsby"

[gdhebling]

Hi everyone,
I'm running into a series of errors while trying to build a Gatsby website using the npm init gatsby command.

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[UPDATE]
Using gatsby new instead of npm init gatsby seems to build as it should when creating an initial build using:

    Create a new Gatsby site in the folder gatsby-contentful-website
    Install and configure the plugin for Contentful
    Get you set up to use styled-components for styling your site
    Install gatsby-plugin-sharp, gatsby-plugin-react-helmet, gatsby-plugin-sitemap

The only strange thing is that it is installing a node_modules folder outside the project folder with the following folders inside:
node_modules\sharp\build\Release\obj\libvips-cpp\libvips-cpp.tlog. The last folder contains 3 files:
link-VCTIP.delete.38.tlog, link-VCTIP.read.38.tlog, link-VCTIP.write.38.tlog

Earlier today I installed Gatsby v2.29. Not sure if it's influencing something.

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My goal is to create a Gatsby website using Contentful as its CMS:

Thanks! Here's what we'll now do:

    Create a new Gatsby site in the folder contentful-gatsby
    Install and configure the plugin for Contentful
    Get you set up to use styled-components for styling your site
    Install gatsby-plugin-sharp, gatsby-plugin-react-helmet, gatsby-plugin-sitemap

I have tried running the command using the terminal with admin privileges, and also tried to run it on a Windows path without spaces. None of those have changed the result. I also run into the same errors if I try to configure it as a Contentful without any styling system or plugins installed during the init.

If I cd into my folder and run npm install, I can run gatsby develop and see the website running on my localhost. I am relatively new to Gatsby, but the end result doesn't look the same as it should look using the initial Gatsby init install. For example, I can't seem to find my access tokens for the Contentful integration.

Copy of my terminal messages:

Command failed with exit code 1: git clone https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-minimal.git C:\Users\guilh\0. Coding\0. Gatsby Challenge\Contentful Website\contentful-gatsby --recursive --depth=1 --quiet
C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule: line 7: basename: command not found
C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule: line 7: sed: command not found
C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule: line 22: .: git-sh-setup: file not found
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path C:\Users\guilh\0. Coding\0. Gatsby Challenge\Contentful Website
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c create-gatsby

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\guilh\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-01-05T11_36_16_029Z-debug.log
PS C:\Users\guilh\0. Coding\0. Gatsby Challenge\Contentful Website>

Copy of the log that was created:

0 verbose cli [
0 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
0 verbose cli   'C:\\Users\\guilh\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
0 verbose cli   'init',
0 verbose cli   'gatsby'
0 verbose cli ]
1 info using [email protected]
2 info using [email protected]
3 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 1ms
4 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\guilh\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\npmrc Completed in 1ms
5 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 1ms
6 timing config:load:cli Completed in 1ms
7 timing config:load:env Completed in 1ms
8 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\guilh\0. Coding\0. Gatsby Challenge\Contentful Website\.npmrc Completed in 1ms
9 timing config:load:project Completed in 3ms
10 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\guilh\.npmrc Completed in 0ms
11 timing config:load:user Completed in 0ms
12 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\guilh\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc Completed in 1ms
13 timing config:load:global Completed in 1ms
14 timing config:load:cafile Completed in 0ms
15 timing config:load:validate Completed in 0ms
16 timing config:load:setUserAgent Completed in 0ms
17 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms
18 timing config:load Completed in 9ms
19 verbose npm-session dbee67311e6dcaa2
20 timing npm:load Completed in 16ms
21 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/create-gatsby 106ms (from cache)
22 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 1ms
23 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 1ms
24 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms
25 timing command:exec Completed in 29826ms
26 timing command:init Completed in 29895ms
27 verbose stack Error: command failed
27 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Users\guilh\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\@npmcli\promise-spawn\index.js:64:27)
27 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
27 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1048:16)
27 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:288:5)
28 verbose cwd C:\Users\guilh\0. Coding\0. Gatsby Challenge\Contentful Website
29 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.19042
30 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\guilh\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "init" "gatsby"
31 verbose node v14.15.3
32 verbose npm  v7.3.0
33 error code 1
34 error path C:\Users\guilh\0. Coding\0. Gatsby Challenge\Contentful Website
35 error command failed
36 error command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c create-gatsby
37 verbose exit 1

[Psvensso]

Had the same/similar problem in windows cmd but worked fine for me in Git bash.

[OnielN14]

Maybe you should try add the C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin, and C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core to your Environment Variables, and reopen your terminal. It's fix my problem. I found the solution from stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/q/49256190).