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For an application that is built using atom-shell you'll need to have the engines.atom-shell set to the version of atom-shell that you are targeting in your root package.json file.

For example if you have an atom-shell app that's targeting version 0.20.7 your package.json file would look something like

{
  "name": "as-app",
  "displayName": "My Atom Shell app",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "",
  "main": "main.js",
  "author": "",
  "engines": {
    "atom-shell": "0.20.7"
  }
}

And when doing an npm install or apm install inside of your atom-shell's root folder it will compile NodeGit targeting that version of atom-shell during the install.

NOTE: there are no pre-built binaries for atom-shell, you must rebuild NodeGit. Visit our building guides for help