I had a vague impression that plumbing messages tend to be lowercase. If it is not be too much trouble, it might be interesting to redo the numbers divided into the plumbing and Porcelain messages. Perhaps these "50%" folks updated both plumbing and Porcelain. Another possibility is that they tried to follow the local convention when they added a new one, or reworded an existing one. If we would be rewording, we would only be doing the Porcelain messages, so I am OK with either way.
It seems that the terms "Porcelain" and "plumbing" seems to be mixed up somewhere.
From 'git help status': "The porcelain format is similar to the short format, but is guaranteed not to change in a backwards-incompatible way between git versions or based on user configuration. This makes it ideal for parsing by scripts".
From 'http://progit.org/book/ch9-1.html': "....it has a bunch of verbs that do low-level work and were designed to be chained together UNIX style or called from scripts. These commands are generally referred to as “plumbing” commands, and the more user-friendly commands are called “porcelain” commands."
It feels like 'porcelain' means: "be careful, things break easily"; and 'plumbing' means: "use all the force you want to get it into (a user-friendly) shape".
Second, to me it is not totally clear which strings are plumbing and which ones are porcelain. Is there a general rule to tell ? The command-list file says what the general intention of a command is, but often it's both plumbing as porcelain.
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