title: Git error, "unknown option '--short'" - "command failed with exit code 1"
body: <p>I tried to do a fresh install of a package.json and got the following error:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/59uL3.png" alt="Screenshot"></p>
  
  <p>Sadly, I do not quite understand the error message and googling the issue also did not work for me.</p>