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Re: what are plumbing and porcelain

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BLbill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
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Jan 21, 2009, 06:07 UTC
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> "plumbing" are the commands that do low-level operations.  Generally, 
> end-users won't have to use them much, if at all, but they 

I can see now gitk should probably be porcelain. But how about commands such as git add or git rebase used with either the -i switch on or off?

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