What does "assigning a Riemannian metric in a differentiable fashion" mean?

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In the book of Frankel, The Geometry of Physics, at page 45, he states that

A Riemannian metric on a manifold $M^n$ assigns, in a differentiable fashion, a positive definite inner product $⟨, ⟩$ in each tangent space $M_p^n$ .

However, what does he mean by "in a differentiable fashion" ? I know what is differentiable manifold, but I don't understand how can the assignment of a metric tensor be differentiable ?