Workaround for "Visual Studio Web Request handler could not be found" when using github?

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When I choose "Open in Visual Studio" on github, I get the following error:

"Visual Studio Web Request handler could not be found"

I believe this is due to the git-client protocol handler not being registered properly.

There's a closed bug for VS2015 listed here but no workaround: https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/issues/140

I've tried to repair Visual Studio 2017 but that didn't fix it. Is there a workaround, perhaps by editing HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\git-client entries?

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