Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

From: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2010, 04:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20100424043821.GA21973@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <s2mb4087cc51004231638u6f0110fcxd4369ff8d81c7c06@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>:

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> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 17:25, Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> > Commands that are simpler
> > to mentally model, because they don't have a lot of exception cases,
> > are better.
> 
> The UNIX philosophy: "Provide mechanism, not policy."

And commands that are simple, orthogonal, and easy to mentally model do that. You get to provide the policy you want by scripting them.

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