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Documentation: Update git core tutorial clarifying reference to scripts
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Back when the git core tutorial was written, porcelain commands were
shell scripts. This patch adds a paragraph explaining this.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Expand Up @@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ interfaces on top of it called "porcelain". You may not want to use the
plumbing directly very often, but it can be good to know what the
plumbing does for when the porcelain isn't flushing.

Back when this document was originally written, many porcelain
commands were shell scripts. For simplicity, it still uses them as
examples to illustrate how plumbing is fit together to form the
porcelain commands. The source tree includes some of these scripts in
contrib/examples/ for reference. Although these are not implemented as
shell scripts anymore, the description of what the plumbing layer
commands do is still valid.

[NOTE]
Deeper technical details are often marked as Notes, which you can
skip on your first reading.
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