npm2git

A command line utility to turn a node_module dependency into a git repository. npm2git will read the repository url from the dependency's package.json.

Installation

npm install -g npm2git

Usage

npm2git <package> [branch]

Arguments

• package: (required) The name of the package to turn into a git repo.
• branch: (optional) The name of the git branch to checkout in the repo. If not specified, and the current project uses a git url for this dependency it will use the branch specified there. Otherwise it will default to master.

Options

• -h, --help output usage information
• -V, --version output the version number
• -v, --verbose verbose output

Example

cd myproject
npm install
npm2git mydep develop
cd node_modules/mydep
git status