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		crottypeter on Feb 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Diff So Fancy: make Git diffs look good git is a content tracker. People who don't need to edit PATH might still need to track content.

_pfxa on Feb 10, 2016 [–]

Git is a revision control system.

Nodejs is a programming language.

NPM is a tool to fetch libraries for node programs.

Thus NPM and Git are software development tools.

A software developer or a power user are supposed to know what $PATH or %PATH is.

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