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[PATCH] Update documentation: git-commit is not a shell command

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 16, 2010, 09:35 UTC
Message-ID
<f3271551001160135k569e2692i5e2ab893701e1738@mail.gmail.com>
Reported by Osamu Aoki through http://bugs.debian.org/560795
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt |    9 +--------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index f762dca..ebc5d0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -454,14 +454,7 @@ will be pruned out, and the rest will be used as
the commit message for
 the change. If you decide you don't want to commit anything after all at
 this point (you can continue to edit things and update the index), you
 can just leave an empty message. Otherwise `git commit` will commit
-the change for you.
-
-You've now made your first real git commit. And if you're interested in
-looking at what `git commit` really does, feel free to investigate:
-it's a few very simple shell scripts to generate the helpful (?) commit
-message headers, and a few one-liners that actually do the
-commit itself ('git-commit').
-
+the change for you. You've now made your first real git commit.

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