It doesn't - look at the "Maintaining external patches" crash course.
Porcelains are integral part of the Git environment. I think several

people have already tried to explain it before.
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:53:33 +0100
There is enough native Git documentation and hopefully more coming

that third party tools should be pushed behind the scenes a bit.

At least on the GIT website.
Of course there is nothing wrong with having information there, but

the main thrust should be about Git and how to use it directly without

porcelains.  Especially in the light that people have recently

expressed a desire to advocate and document the use of native Git

more strongly.
Having a link to Cogito off the front page of the Git website that

says... Cogito makes things "easier", no matter how much you

personally believe it, isn't the way everyone feels and is at

odds with the native-git message and improvement effort.
Sean

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