From: Martin Langhoff Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:27:52 GMT Subject: Re: 'show' pretty %B without a diff Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20101221180459.GA25812@burratino> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Maybe it would be worth adding a plumbing example under the EXAMPLES > for each porcelain? Since porcelain went to C, one thing I often do is checkout really old versions of git to see exactly what the shell version of a particular command did . That way, I get a much better understanding of how a certain action is done at the plumbing level; complement that with the documentation for reference, and I'm 99% done. Maybe that helps someone . cheers, m --  martin.langhoff@gmail.com  martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff