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People interact with DefinitelyTyped in a set of ways, from currently most common to least common:

1. NuGet packages, which are built from the GitHub repository but then redistributed over a non-Github CDN (NuGet's)

2. tsd management tool (https://github.com/Definitelytyped/tsd), which looks like it prefers Github's CDN raw URLs rather than full/shallow git clones

3. typings management tool (https://github.com/typings/typings) with "ambient" typings searches (`--ambient` flag), which I believe also prefers Github's CDN raw URLs, as it essentially forked from TSD

That said, it's past time to move beyond the giant huge DefinitelyTyped repo, and I for one heartily recommend people migrate to typings which has better support for NPM and other module and package management systems, as well as smaller unit/module-focused Github repositories.



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