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| author | Forrest L Norvell <forrest@npmjs.com> | 2016-03-29 23:30:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Myles Borins <mborins@us.ibm.com> | 2016-04-01 14:47:39 -0700 |
| commit | 0928584444ac6edf1ead0b93c9d05b1124183702 (patch) | |
| tree | f64c5646b8e2817009e7afe97c2670c73d38a7eb /deps/npm/doc/cli/npm-link.md | |
| parent | 39de601e1c3eda92eb2e37eca4e6aa960f206f39 (diff) | |
| download | node-new-0928584444ac6edf1ead0b93c9d05b1124183702.tar.gz | |
deps: upgrade npm to 3.8.3
PR-URL: https://github.com/npm/node/pull/6
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | deps/npm/doc/cli/npm-link.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/deps/npm/doc/cli/npm-link.md b/deps/npm/doc/cli/npm-link.md index 344fcbf1a7..b5749f889c 100644 --- a/deps/npm/doc/cli/npm-link.md +++ b/deps/npm/doc/cli/npm-link.md @@ -12,12 +12,13 @@ npm-link(1) -- Symlink a package folder Package linking is a two-step process. -First, `npm link` in a package folder will create a globally-installed -symbolic link from `prefix/package-name` to the current folder (see -`npm-config(7)` for the value of `prefix`). +First, `npm link` in a package folder will create a symlink in the global folder +`{prefix}/lib/node_modules/<package>` that links to the package where the `npm +link` command was executed. (see `npm-config(7)` for the value of `prefix`). Next, in some other location, `npm link package-name` will create a -symlink from the local `node_modules` folder to the global symlink. +symbolic link from globally-installed `package-name` to `node_modules/` +of the current folder. Note that `package-name` is taken from `package.json`, not from directory name. @@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ For example: Now, any changes to ~/projects/node-redis will be reflected in ~/projects/node-bloggy/node_modules/node-redis/. Note that the link should -be to the package name, not the directory name for that package. +be to the package name, not the directory name for that package. You may also shortcut the two steps in one. For example, to do the above use-case in a shorter way: |