News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Visual Git. Parent comment

Re:Visual Git by diesal11 on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:43AM (#29063980)
Naming things can be hard.

How would you describe the distinction between these two command types?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Visual Git by _ph_ on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:55AM (#29064050)
How about "infrastructure" and "interface"?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Visual Git by zufallsheld on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:44AM (#29064289)
Infrastructure is certainly not unambiguous here.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Visual Git by _ph_ on Monday November 01, 2021 @05:29AM (#29064564)
Less than "porcellain", which doesn't have an obvious meaning in this context. Other terms could be "implementation" or "internal".
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Visual Git by rswail on Monday November 01, 2021 @11:20AM (#29067844)
From the primary git manpage:

      GIT COMMANDS
         We divide Git into high level ("porcelain") commands and low level
         ("plumbing") commands.
[ Parent | on HN ]