contrib: remove "examples" directory
The "examples" directory used to contain scripted versions of some of our builtins. These have all been removed in 49eb8d39c78 (Remove contrib/examples/*, 2018-03-25), but we left a note in the directory to make it discoverable that there used to be examples. It is unlikely that anybody still looks at these examples more than 7 years after they have been removed. Remove the note and its directory. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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May 12, 2025 at 11:19 UTC
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-This directory used to contain scripted implementations of builtins
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-that have since been rewritten in C.
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-
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-They have now been removed, but can be retrieved from an older commit
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-that removed them from this directory.
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-
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-They're interesting for their reference value to any aspiring plumbing
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-users who want to learn how pieces can be fit together, but in many
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-cases have drifted enough from the actual implementations Git uses to
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-be instructive.
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-
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-Other things that can be useful:
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-
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- * Some commands such as git-gc wrap other commands, and what they're
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- doing behind the scenes can be seen by running them under
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- GIT_TRACE=1
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-
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- * Doing `git log` on paths matching '*--helper.c' will show
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- incremental effort in the direction of moving existing shell
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- scripts to C.