Steps to reproduce the issue

• Clone the repository:
  git clone git@github.com:joomla/joomla-cms.git

• Go to the joomla-cms folder:
  cd joomla-cms

• Checkout 4.0-dev branch:
  git checkout 4.0-dev

• Install all the needed composer packages:
  composer install

• Install all the needed npm packages:
  npm install

Expected result

Steps to setup the local environment succeed.

Actual result

npm install fails

error Command failed: git rev-list -n1 master

System information (as much as possible)

npm-debug.log

Additional comments

git checkout 4.0-dev is missing in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/4.0-dev/README.md.