Documentation: Update git core tutorial clarifying reference to scripts
Back when the git core tutorial was written, porcelain commands were shell scripts. This patch adds a paragraph explaining this. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ interfaces on top of it called "porcelain". You may not want to use the
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plumbing directly very often, but it can be good to know what the
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plumbing does for when the porcelain isn't flushing.
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+Back when this document was originally written, many porcelain
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+commands were shell scripts. For simplicity, it still uses them as
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+examples to illustrate how plumbing is fit together to form the
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+porcelain commands. The source tree includes some of these scripts in
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+contrib/examples/ for reference. Although these are not implemented as
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+shell scripts anymore, the description of what the plumbing layer
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+commands do is still valid.
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[NOTE]
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Deeper technical details are often marked as Notes, which you can
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skip on your first reading.