Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added
From: Eric Raymond <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:42
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added · Goswin von Brederlow <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added · Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added · Goswin von Brederlow <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added · Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added · Miles Bader <hidden>
Michael Witten [off-list ref]:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 17:25, Eric Raymond [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
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>