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arvinsim on Jan 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaki...

I imagine your commit log would be polluted with commits just for changes in the packages.

charcircuit on Jan 10, 2022 [–]

You would have one anyways for changing the lock file or whatever. Changing your dependencies is something that you may want to be able to undo. It's useful to be able to go back to a known working version of your program with versions of your dependencies that you know work.

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