Git Protocol Usage With TFS 2013

In our organization we have been using TFS for some time. Recently we have had a set of developers building internal tools to be consumed by various parts of our engineering teams to help with our developing or product. These developers used a local Git
server for their version control. At the time our version of TFS was 2012 which did not support Git repositories.
We upgraded our TFS servers to 2013 and created a git based team project. All source was successfully moved and it seemed as if everything was good. However, the team has come up against an issue with using Git as TFS provides it.
With their old server the team was able to use npm, nodejs package manager, to have our other engineers install their tools. The instructions for installing their tool would be:
npm install git://gitorious.corp.local/project/repo.git
When trying this command with TFS:
npm install git://tfs2013.corp.local:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/TeamProject/_git/Repo
we have an error:
npm ERR! git clone git://tfs2013.corp.local:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/TeamProject/_git/Repo Cloning into bare repository 'C:\npm-cache\_git-remotes\git-tfs-8080-tfs-DefaultCollection-Project-git-repo-fbbf0c4b'...
npm ERR! git clone git://tfs2013.corp.local:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/TeamProject/_git/Repo
npm ERR! git clone git://tfs2013.corp.local:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/TeamProject/_git/Repo fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: HTTP
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "git://tfs2013.corp.local:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/TeamProject/_git/Repo"
npm ERR! node v0.10.35
npm ERR! npm v2.4.1
npm ERR! code 128
npm ERR! Command failed: fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: HTTP
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR! <http://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! C:\Source\git\sumtotal-module\npm-debug.log
If I startup Wireshark and trap the response from TFS I see this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Bad Request</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></HEAD>
<BODY><h2>Bad Request - Invalid URL</h2>
<hr><p>HTTP Error 400. The request URL is invalid.</p>
</BODY></HTML>
Clone, fetch, pull, and push all work with the HTTP protocol and fail if they use git://.
Is there a way to setup the git protocol with TFS?

@John, I was working on a reply to you when @Jesse replied. I think my reply to him will cover what I was going to answer.
@Jesse,
I think I remember reading somewhere that git:// is SSH.
We're developing a tool in NodeJS that is consumed by our other engineering teams. When on the previous internal gitorious host we used the git:// protocol for regular git operations (clone, fetch, pull, push) and for using npm (node package manager).
After I moved the repository to TFS by doing a bare clone and mirror'd push the engineers working on the tools changed their remotes to point at the new TFS repo. The URL that TFS gave us was http. So to answer your question we are using the http protocol
for regular dev.
The problems comes from the consumption side. NPM defaults to using the npmjs.com feed for modules. However, npm allows the use of tarball and git repositories from which to install a module. With the gitorious host the consumers of the tools could simply
type:
npm install git://gitorious.corp.local/Project/repo@tag
This would cause NPM to install the version at the tag of the module at that git repository.
In my OP I stated that this gives an error. I forgot to post that switching git for http also causes an error:
npm ERR! fetch failed http://tfs2013.corp.local:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/TeamProject/_git/Repo
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: fetch failed with status code 401
npm ERR! fetch failed http://tfs2013.corp.local:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/TeamProject/_git/Repo
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: fetch failed with status code 401
Now I did a wireshark trace to get the response to the command with git:// but until now didn't think of doing it for this case. I also let it slip that a 401 code is unauthorized access:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div>
<div id="content">
<div class="content-container"><fieldset>
<h2>401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.</h2>
<h3>You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.</h3>
</fieldset></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I suppose now the question becomes, is there any way to specify the credentials through this request? I'm going to reach out to the npm project to see why it wouldn't be passing me back a challenge or a sending my windows creds.

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