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Re:Git 2.9 released by 0942v8653 on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:52AM (#11916061)
Requires Node though. Not sure that many people have that installed.
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Re:Git 2.9 released by TimWolla on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:56AM (#11916087)
It does not:

> For convenience, the recommended installation is via NPM. If you'd prefer, you may choose to do a manual installation instead. (highlighting by me)

It is written in Perl.

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Re:Git 2.9 released by ymse on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:05PM (#11918515)
Wait, what? A perl app distributed through NPM? What's next, a node app on CPAN?

Color me perplexed.

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Re:Git 2.9 released by dietrichepp on Thursday June 16, 2016 @06:04PM (#11919226)
There are a lot of non-JS packages in NPM. The Closure compiler, for example.
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