From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:07:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update documentation: git-commit is not a shell command
Message-ID: <f3271551001161007u33aa6bbfu7ad85ed8241695bc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wbyc5yb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

> 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