From 0b97623e151d2b2af45b0fd72f3e390ccdb27090 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zoltan Kochan Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 11:57:00 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] docs(README): less confusion in the Background section --- README.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 51894da3da..79bbb32088 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ always the same way, the way they are described in `package.json` files. ## Background pnpm uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk. -When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 packages using lodash, you will have -100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a single place on the disk -and a hard link will put it into the `node_modules` where it should be installed. +When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 projects using the same version +of lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a +single place on the disk and a hard link will put it into the `node_modules` where it should +be installed. As a result, you save gigabytes of space on your disk and you have a lot faster installations! If you'd like more details about the unique `node_modules` structure that pnpm creates and