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On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:32:49PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:

> Agreed. Fix the plumbing instead and document how/why to use it
> instead of the porcelain. We might do better to help clearly document
> which commands are porcelain and which are plumbing maybe by
> referencing which plumbings to use in place of various porcelain
> commands. I know, for example, that git status already does this.

"man git" already has such a list (which is generated from the
annotations in command-list.txt). But I agree that it would probably be
helpful to point people directly from "git log" to "git rev-list" and
vice versa.

-Peff