Visual Studio - Bower Package Management - ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads https: // ...", exit code from # 128

Background

I created an empty ASP.NET MVC project, opened the Manage Bower Packages window and tried to install the foo package. I am getting the following error:

PATH=.\node_modules\.bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Web\External;%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw32\bin
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Web\External\Bower.cmd" install foo#v4.0.0 --force-latest --save
bower foo#v4.0.0       not-cached https://github.com/bar/foo.git#v4.0.0
bower foo#v4.0.0          resolve https://github.com/bar/foo.git#v4.0.0
bower foo#v4.0.0          ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads https://github.com/bar/foo.git", exit code of #128

      

        
        
        
      

    

Question
How to fix the above error?

Note
This question is strictly related to Visual Studio. In this case, running the following command does not fix the problem .

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://