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Remove Changelog from npm package

See original GitHub issue

While looking for some larger files in node_modules, I’d noticed that the CHANGELOG is getting bundled:

268K    ./node_modules/eslint/CHANGELOG.md

This appears to be happening on 3.18.0

Thanks for your time in reading!

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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platinumazurecommented, Mar 24, 2017

@baweaver As noted in @not-an-aardvark’s link, npm will always include the changelog even if we try to tell npm to ignore it. Thus, the only way we could get it out of the package is to remove it from GitHub, which means nobody could read it.

I suppose theoretically, we could remove older release notes from CHANGELOG and put it in some sort of archive that doesn’t get included in the package, but why should we do that really? Just seems like an extra maintenance burden for not a lot of gain.

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not-an-aardvarkcommented, Mar 24, 2017

I think the changelog is an important part of our documentation, so it makes sense to include it in the package. This is also why npm always includes changelogs in the package.

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