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by lemming 331 days ago
Git refers to the user-friendly commands as “porcelain”

Ahhhhahahaha… “user friendly”. When compared to coding the repo by hand, I guess.

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This is what happens when you let an OS kernel guy write a cli.
When compared to the "plumbing" commands. If you want to know more about git's plumbing vs porcelain metaphor, this is a good quick overview: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39848551