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BREAKING CHANGE: npm will no longer switch to global mode if aliased to "npmg" or "npm-g" etc.
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BREAKING CHANGE: npm will no longer switch to global mode if aliased to "npmg" or "npm-g" etc.
This code is a remnant from when npm defined
binentries for itself that includednpm_gandnpm-g.npm no longer defines these, and this code should have been removed when those entries were removed. To utilize this today one would have to manually alias npm themselves.
What this code does today in practice is make local development very tricky, because if you (like me) use git worktrees, and have a worktree directory that ends in "g", npm will be in global mode when you invoke it as
node .. This is very "magical" behavior and not at all intuitive.It's best if this just goes away.
npm -gis explicit and does not require npm trying to guess if you really wanted to be in global mode or not.