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Havvy on March 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: I've Just Liberated My Modules

Because there's no version control that way. If I depended upon babel/babel (or whatever it's called on Github), when it changed from v5.x to v6.x, it would have broken my build.

SlashmanX on March 23, 2016 [–]

You can ask for a specific tag/branch using Github dependencies using babel/babel#v5.x

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