- added git as the last method before full manual install.
- added the directory on `git clone` command
- added the `git checkout v0.33.1` as the -v gets updated automatically
Enable `--compressed` parameter on curl to automatically enable
compression on request content by sending coressponding header, if the
server side supports compression format like deflate or gzip, curl will
also decompress the content automatically, so there is no additional
works need to done manually on client side, but just enjoy the benifits
of bandwidth and time saving!
Take https://nodejs.org/dist/index.tab as an example which is last
modified on Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:41:05 GMT, the compressed transmission
only take 4829 bytes howevet the not compressed on taks 48000 bytes,
which is about 10 times larger!
This feature can be traced back to Sep 3 2002, in curl commit:
- 64bbe9dfaf
So should be supported on various versions widely.
1. If we are not going to install nodejs or io.js from source, we may
not need to have c++ compiler or libssl-dev package
2. the `build-essential` and `libssl-dev` packages should work on all
the Debian and Ubuntu based GNU/Linux distros
3. Remove useless blank lines
If you go to the [fin repo](https://github.com/fisherman/fin) you'll see that it isn't a node version manager, but simply a plugin manager for Fish. Seems out of scope for the readme, and there are other plugin solutions for fish as well. I suggest removing the reference.
git-describe was taught `--abbrev=0` in 1.5.0:
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt
git-describe was taught `--match` in 1.5.5:
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt
I don't see anything else potentially weird in here, so I think it is
safe to proclaim that the minimum git version required to run these
commands is 1.5.5.
Documenting this minimum version required here should help people debug
possible issues and help maintainers of this project understand the
impacts of modifying these commands in the future.
As suggested by @ljharb, this might be a little cleaner. I'm not
entirely sure, but in any case, it is consistent with the upgrade
instructions, so that is nice.
I recently upgraded my copy of nvm and I was disappointed to be dropped
in the .nvm directory at the end of it. I also didn't like having to
copy and paste two separate blocks of code into my terminal, because I
missed the second one the first time around and was left in a slightly
confusing state. So, I decided to make this easier by utilizing
subshells and moving all of the instructions into one code block in this
document. I think this will improve people's experience maintaining this
tool.
`git describe` will match the latest tags, regardless of what it looks
like. We can make this a little safer by adding a `--match` flag to
match tags that look like version tags. This allows the maintainers of
this repo to more safely add other types of tags if they so wish,
without causing people to install or upgrade to those versions.
Jordan Harband