website: don't recommend to use "terraform init" to clone examples

This form of "terraform init" is vestigial at this point and being phased
out in 0.10. Something similar may return in a later version for
installing modules from a more formal module library, but for now we are
advising to use git manually to simplify the UX for "terraform init".
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@ -39,23 +39,19 @@ To use these examples, Terraform must first be installed on your machine.
You can install Terraform from the [downloads page](/downloads.html). You can install Terraform from the [downloads page](/downloads.html).
Once installed, you can use two steps to view and run the examples. Once installed, you can use two steps to view and run the examples.
To clone any examples, run `terraform init` with the URL to the example: To try these examples, first clone them with git as usual:
``` ```
$ terraform init github.com/hashicorp/terraform/tree/master/examples/aws-two-tier git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/examples/aws-two-tier
cd aws-two-tier
```
You can then use your own editor to read and browse the configurations.
To try out the example, initialize and then apply:
```
$ terraform init
... ...
```
This will put the example files within your working directory. You can then
use your own editor to read and browse the configurations. This command will
not _run_ any code.
~> If you want to browse the files before downloading them, you can [view
them on GitHub](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/tree/master/examples/aws-two-tier).
If you want to run the example, just run `terraform apply`:
```
$ terraform apply $ terraform apply
... ...
``` ```