Composer install fails to clone

Question

I am trying to do a composer install on a new Drupal project, and it fails with the following error:

  [RuntimeException]
  Failed to clone https://github.com/jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage.git via https, ssh, git protocols, aborti
  ng.

  - https://github.com/jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage.git
    Cloning into 'web/libraries/backbone.localstorage'...
    done.
    sh: line 0: cd: web/libraries/backbone.localstorage: No such file or directory

  - git@github.com:jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage.git
    Cloning into 'web/libraries/backbone.localstorage'...
    done.
    sh: line 0: cd: web/libraries/backbone.localstorage: No such file or directory

  - git://github.com/jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage.git
    Cloning into 'web/libraries/backbone.localstorage'...
    done.
    sh: line 0: cd: web/libraries/backbone.localstorage: No such file or directory

System details:

macOS 10.12.6
git version 2.18.0
Composer version 1.6.5 2018-05-04 11:44:59
PHP 7.0.30 (cli) (built: Jun 22 2018 00:52:06) ( NTS )
  Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
  Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
  with Zend OPcache v7.0.30, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies

It's puzzling because my co-workers do not get this error, and they have similar machines, running the same OS, and composer/php/git version.

I have tried the following to no avail:

• Re-installing git with brew reinstall git
• Remove the vendor directory with rm -rf vendor
• Clear composer cache with composer clear-cache
• Remove the localStorage package from composer.json (the exact same error appears, even if cache is cleared)
• Running composer install with the --prefer-dist flag
• Running composer install with the --prefer-source flag

I've also tried running composer update , and I get this error:

  [RuntimeException]
  Failed to execute git clone --no-checkout '/Users/delucac/.composer/cache/vcs/https---git.drupal.org-project-ma
  illog/' 'web/modules/contrib/maillog' --dissociate --reference '/Users/delucac/.composer/cache/vcs/https---git.
  drupal.org-project-maillog/' && cd 'web/modules/contrib/maillog' && git remote set-url origin 'https://git.drup
  al.org/project/maillog' && git remote add composer 'https://git.drupal.org/project/maillog'

  Cloning into 'web/modules/contrib/maillog'...
  done.
  sh: line 0: cd: web/modules/contrib/maillog: No such file or directory

I've Googled around and found several threads with the same/similar issue, but no resolution.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I figured out the problem.

I'm not sure why, and the error doesn't really indicate this, but removing this line from my .bashrc fixes the issue:

export CDPATH='~:~/Sites'

This provides "auto-bookmarks" to cd completion for any top-level directory in either Home or Sites, and obviously modifies some path, but I'm still confuses why this caused a problem.

If anyone has any further insight into this I'd be grateful.