From: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:38:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added
Message-ID: <20100424043821.GA21973@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <s2mb4087cc51004231638u6f0110fcxd4369ff8d81c7c06@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>:
> 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.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>