npm install from vso

I'm just going to throw all this out there and hope SO can help..

My situation is that I need to npm install -s from a Visual Studio Online hosted git repo. I have seen how to do this from github and bitbucket. I guessed that the process would be the same but when I run npm install, nothing happens. I expected that at a minimum, the index.js, the readme.md and the package.json would be pulled.

I created a simple repo at https://ldcjtctest.visualstudio.com/_git/MyFirstProject

this project contains these files:

I have tried running npm install with ssh and https but both give me the following with verbose logging:

What am I missing?

via Jay Culpepper