latest" tag satisfying (e)</li>
<li>g) a <code class="language-text">git</code> url that, when cloned, results in (a).</li>
</ul>
<p>Even if you never publish your package, you can still get a lot of
benefits of using npm if you just want to write a node program (a), and
perhaps if you also want to be able to easily install it elsewhere
after packing it up into a tarball (b).</p>
<p>Git urls can be of the form:</p>
<div class="gatsby-highlight" data-language="bash"><pre class="language-bash"><code class="la