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diff --git a/contrib/examples/README b/contrib/examples/README index 6946f3dd2a..18bc60b021 100644 --- a/contrib/examples/README +++ b/contrib/examples/README @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ -These are original scripted implementations, kept primarily for their -reference value to any aspiring plumbing users who want to learn how -pieces can be fit together. +This directory used to contain scripted implementations of builtins +that have since been rewritten in C. + +They have now been removed, but can be retrieved from an older commit +that removed them from this directory. + +They're interesting for their reference value to any aspiring plumbing +users who want to learn how pieces can be fit together, but in many +cases have drifted enough from the actual implementations Git uses to +be instructive. + +Other things that can be useful: + + * Some commands such as git-gc wrap other commands, and what they're + doing behind the scenes can be seen by running them under + GIT_TRACE=1 + + * Doing `git log` on paths matching '*--helper.c' will show + incremental effort in the direction of moving existing shell + scripts to C. |