Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:51:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > 
> > > Am I the only one who deems teaching plumbing to users ("I like it raw!  
> > > So I teach it the same way!") harmful?
> > 
> > I think that justification is harmful.
> > 
> > More productive way to think about it is to identify cases where we _need_
> > to go down to combination of the plumbing commands in our daily workflow,
> > with today's command set.  That would give us a good indication that some
> > Porcelain may need to be enhanced.
> 
> Is there a way to commit the contents of a tarball without using
> plumbing?  I occasionally want to track an upstream that I know only as
> a series of tarballs, so I do something like:
> 
> 	cd repo/
> 	git checkout upstream
> 	rm -rf *
> 	tar -xzvf ../new-version.tar.gz