That’s a terrible idea.  The simplest reason it’s a terrible idea is that 
binaries built for one platform will be checked in.  ie developing on OS X and 
deploying on Linux.

On Dec 19, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1
> 
> On Dec 18, 2013, at 12:41PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> If you want this level of static dependencies you can check in your deps 
>> into node_modules in your git tree or use git submodules in there.  Git does 
>> guarantee that the thing you point to can't be changed because the hash *is* 
>> the hash of the content.  If anything changes, the hash changes.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Brian Lalor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Dec 18, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Richard Marr <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm working on an app where security is an issue, and among the (many) 
>>> things that I'm frothingly paranoid about is the possibility of malicious 
>>> (or more likely just untested) code somehow getting into our app, even 
>>> though we're using shrink-wrapped versions. It means we'll have to be much 
>>> more careful with the way we proxy the npm registry. 
>> 
>> I’d like to know this, as well.  One of the guarantees made by the Maven 
>> central repository is that artifacts (packages) can check in, but they can 
>> never check out.  I frankly don’t think NPM provides this type of assurance, 
>> but it should.  Otherwise the only way an organization can trust packages is 
>> to run their own repository.
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