deps: upgrade to npm 2.14.4

[platform/upstream/nodejs.git] / deps / npm / doc / misc / npm-developers.md

diff --git a/deps/npm/doc/misc/npm-developers.md b/deps/npm/doc/misc/npm-developers.md
index 75474f9..2ef900b 100644 (file)
--- a/deps/npm/doc/misc/npm-developers.md
+++ b/deps/npm/doc/misc/npm-developers.md
@@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ Use a `.npmignore` file to keep stuff out of your package.  If there's
 no `.npmignore` file, but there *is* a `.gitignore` file, then npm will
 ignore the stuff matched by the `.gitignore` file.  If you *want* to
 include something that is excluded by your `.gitignore` file, you can
-create an empty `.npmignore` file to override it.
+create an empty `.npmignore` file to override it. Like `git`, `npm` looks
+for `.npmignore` and `.gitignore` files in all subdirectories of your
+package, not only the root directory.
 
 `.npmignore` files follow the [same pattern rules](http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository#Ignoring-Files)
 as `.gitignore` files: