I&#x27;ve many Debian servers without nodejs _and_ without python.<p>It requires conscious work as any other dependency, but it&#x27;s possible (and convenient, if you don&#x27;t depend on them).<p>So more than probably, I&#x27;ll not install npm, to test a bash wrapper to a perl script, that does something that git itself can do without external dependencies.<p>But obviously, different persons have different concepts of the K.I.S.S. principle.<p>Being a perl script... why the author didn&#x27;t use CPAN? it&#x27;s available in all vanilla installs of Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat, etc...