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Install bower on Mac OS X

In this guide I’ll show you how to install the package manager Bower on Mac OS X. Bower is a NodeJS application, so you’ll need to install the Node Package Manager npm first. npm is available as a package in the Homebrew repositories.

Git: Ignore permission changes

In this guide I’ll show you, how to prevent permission changes within a Git repository to be recognized as a file change.

At least after changing file permissions using the Makefile in your version controlled project, the output of git status will be a mess making it nearly impossible to identify changes within your project’s source code.