Revert "tutorial: update the initial commit example."

This reverts 5990efb0c4f6d1a19c4702bf50ef8cc5ac902a78 commit.

diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index 6ecb089..00f4bab 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
@@ -293,16 +293,14 @@ also wants to get a commit message
 on its standard input, and it will write out the resulting object name for the
 commit to its standard output.
 
-And this is where we create the `.git/refs/heads/master` file
-which is pointed at by `HEAD`. This file is supposed to contain
-the reference to the top-of-tree of the master branch, and since
-that's exactly what `git-commit-tree` spits out, we can do this
-all with a sequence of simple shell commands:
+And this is where we create the `.git/refs/heads/master` file. This file is
+supposed to contain the reference to the top-of-tree, and since that's
+exactly what `git-commit-tree` spits out, we can do this all with a simple
+shell pipeline:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
-tree=$(git-write-tree)
-commit=$(echo 'Initial commit' | git-commit-tree $tree)
-git-update-ref HEAD $(commit)
+echo "Initial commit" | \
+       git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) > .git/refs/heads/master
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 which will say: