Using GIt 

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19049

Reporting Errors with Git (Bug Report for npm) 

I'm opening this issue because:

• • npm is crashing.

  • npm is producing an incorrect install.

  • [x ] npm is doing something I don't understand.

  • Other (see below for feature requests):

What's going wrong?

The results from:
npm config ls
and
npm profile get
are not in sync.
See screen shot. The fullname and twitter values shown in the profile get table are blank.
The fullname and twitter values shown when you get the config are 'nicholas' and 'node2joy'. The fullname is not complete, which may or may not be related.

Earlier, I had entered nicholas patrck marsupial and 'node2joy' for these values, using npm set profile.

How can the CLI team reproduce the problem?

I do not know for sure, but I do know that I did not delete the values for fullname or twitter account at any point. Here is a good guess:

1. Use npm profile set to define a fullname and a twitter account. Use 3 names for the fullname, as in nicholas patrick marsupial.

2. Use npm profile get to prove that this worked, including the 3-word fullname.

3. Logout, change password, log in again.

4. Install and uninstall lodash.

5. Use the command npm install npm@latest even though already at the latest (but node 8.6)

6. Type npm config ls and see if it shows the fullname & twitter.

7. Use npm profile get. Did the fullname and twitter entry disappear?

supporting information:

• npm -v prints:
  5.5.1

• node -v prints:

• npm config get registry prints:
  https://registry.npmjs.org/

• Windows, OS X/macOS, or Linux?:
  Mac

• Network issues:
  npm office