what are plumbing and porcelain
Sorry for this idiot question, but I really don't know what they are and why it is necessary to distinguish between them.
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Sorry for this idiot question, but I really don't know what they are and why it is necessary to distinguish between them.
"plumbing" are the commands that do low-level operations. Generally, end-users won't have to use them much, if at all, but they are "fundamental" operations, upon which git is built. It's a term also used in other project some, with a similar meaning.
"porcelain" is a cute name for the end-user operations. They "cover" the plumbing to make it look and act "pretty". While some may be less useful to some users, they all are high-level operations that depend on the plumbing.
It's important to distinguish between them because we don't want the plumbing to get needlessly complex. They should be single-purpose commands and their options should be utilitarian in nature. Also, porcelain is meant to be used interactively, not in scripts, so the output or behavior might change a bit--but that is still kept to a minimum.
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"plumbing" are the commands that do low-level operations. Generally, end-users won't have to use them much, if at all, but they
I can see now gitk should probably be porcelain. But how about commands such as git add or git rebase used with either the -i switch on or off?
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"plumbing" are the commands that do low-level operations. Generally, end-users won't have to use them much, if at all, but they
I can see now gitk should probably be porcelain. But how about commands such as git add or git rebase used with either the -i switch on or off?
If you have git installed, "man git" should contain separate lists of porcelain and plumbing. If not, the documentation is available in the git repository, under Documentation/. Porcelain: cmds-mainporcelain.txt, cmds-ancillarymanipulators.txt, cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.txt, and cmds-foreignscminterface.txt. Plumbing: cmds-plumbingmanipulators.txt, cmds-plumbinginterrogators.txt, cmds-synchingrepositories.txt, cmds-synchelpers.txt, and cmds-purehelpers.txt
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Thanks for bringing my attention to that.
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