You can also put something like this in .gitignore: ```.gitignore node_modules !node_modules/foo ```
and it'll ignore everything in node_modules *except* node_modules/foo. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Aseem Kishore <[email protected]> wrote: > Surprised no one has mentioned this yet: > > You can .gitignore node_modules but still manually check in files under > node_modules. Git will just ask you to add a -f flag if you really mean to > check those in. > > We do this for our own private modules. (Actually, what we check into > node_modules are just symlinks. Our modules live in their own directories > alongside the requiring module.) > > Aseem > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Mariusz Nowak <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Tom: >> >> Have you tried following in .gitignore: >> >> node_modules/* >> !node_modules/my-private-package1 >> !node_modules/my-private-package2 >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:09:27 PM UTC+2, Tom wrote: >>> >>> I've added the node_modules folder to my .gitignore file, which works >>> fine thanks to NPM Shrinkwrap (after deploying I need to run npm install >>> using the shrinkwrap.json file). >>> >>> However, I've got some private modules now that I won't publish to NPM. I >>> would like to require these modules like the other modules in node_modules. >>> >>> Unfortunately I cannot put these modules in node_modules, because they'd >>> be ignored by git, messing with my future deployment. >>> >>> Where should I place these modules instead? I've been told that editing >>> the paths variable for node's module lookup is highly unrecommended. >>> >>> Note that these are small undocumented nonpublic modules, which is why I >>> don't want to publish them to NPM. >>> >>> Tom >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
