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| author | smikes <smikes@cubane.com> | 2015-01-06 04:10:51 +0300 |
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| committer | Forrest L Norvell <ogd@aoaioxxysz.net> | 2015-01-09 06:32:13 +0300 |
| commit | 560c00945d4dec926cd29193e336f137c7f3f951 (patch) | |
| tree | 83568eff3fcc405748fd00cd56f2fa0443d73d99 /doc | |
| parent | d7954c0091186a5a710d0db27120b28f3553c679 (diff) | |
npm update: document --dev flag (closes #6745)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/cli/npm-update.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/cli/npm-update.md b/doc/cli/npm-update.md index d17612199..2aa0f366b 100644 --- a/doc/cli/npm-update.md +++ b/doc/cli/npm-update.md @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ npm-update(1) -- Update a package This command will update all the packages listed to the latest version (specified by the `tag` config). -It will also install missing packages. +It will also install missing packages. As with all commands that install +packages, the `--dev` flag will cause `devDependencies` to be processed +as well. If the `-g` flag is specified, this command will update globally installed packages. @@ -18,15 +20,6 @@ packages. If no package name is specified, all packages in the specified location (global or local) will be updated. -## WARNING - -By design, this command does **NOT** respect semantic versioning. Running -`npm update` may break the current package by upgrading to incompatible newer -versions of dependencies. - -Running `npm update -g` may break all globally installed packages, including -npm itself. - ## SEE ALSO * npm-install(1) |