# ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 128: git clone -q https://github.com/user/repo.git /tmp/pip-req-build-xxx. Check the logs for full command output.

- **ID:** `python/pip-git-dependency-error`
- **Domain:** python
- **Category:** network_error
- **Verification:** ai_generated
- **Fix Rate:** 80%

## Root Cause

The git repository URL is invalid, the repository does not exist, or authentication is required.

## Version Compatibility

| Version | Status | Introduced | Deprecated |
|---------|--------|------------|------------|
| 3.8 | active | — | — |
| 3.9 | active | — | — |
| 3.10 | active | — | — |
| 3.11 | active | — | — |
| 3.12 | active | — | — |

## Workarounds

1. **** (95% success)
   ```
   git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git  # test manually
   ```
2. **** (90% success)
   ```
   pip install git+https://github.com/user/repo.git@v1.0
   ```

## Dead Ends

- **** — Caching is not the issue; the clone itself fails. (80% fail)
- **** — The git dependency is the package itself; skipping dependencies does not help. (70% fail)