docs:correction to npm update -g behaviour #755
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There's a long trail here (from npm/npm#11534 to npm/cli#755) but basically, npm installs globals as if there were a caret given in the version, so that `npm upgrade -g` won't ever do anything beyond that semver. Thus, we need to actually pass each individual package name to `npm install` (note: install, not upgrade) in order to actually update packages.
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What / Why
The docs state that running
npm update -gwill update globally installed packages to latestThe actual behaviour is to upgrading with an implicit caret range specified to the globally installed packages, this means that it will not always update to latest.
This PR updates the docs to make this clear.
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