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

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 16, 2010, 18:07 UTC
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> Actually, I changed my mind.  There are many other Porcelain commands in
> the core tutorial that are no longer scripted.  It is better to leave the
> main text of the tutorial as-is.  In the initial part of the document,
> mention that many Porcelain commands were scripts back when the document
> was written, that the document uses them as examples of how plumbing are
> fit together to form them, that some scripted Porcelain implementations
> are found in contrib/examples/ directory of the source tree for reference
> purposes, and that the description of what the plumbing layer commands do
> in the document is still valid even though the Porcelain commands mentined
> in the document are not implemented in terms of the plumbing commands in
> shell scripts anymore.

Right. Thanks for pointing that out. Here's the patch fixing it: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/137242

-- Ram
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  1. Update documentation: git-commit is not a shell commandRamkumar Ramachandra, Jan 16, 2010
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