From: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:38:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100424043821.GA21973@thyrsus.com> (raw)
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>
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2010-04-22 15:58 ` Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-22 18:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-22 19:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-22 19:08 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-22 20:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-22 21:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-23 9:03 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 9:31 ` Miles Bader
2010-04-23 16:01 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-04-23 20:17 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 20:26 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 20:33 ` Daniel Grace
2010-04-23 21:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-24 21:15 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-24 21:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-24 22:08 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-24 22:42 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-25 2:47 ` Miles Bader
2010-04-25 3:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-23 22:35 ` Matthias Andree
2010-04-24 1:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-22 21:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-22 21:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-22 21:57 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 9:09 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 9:22 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-04-23 17:00 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 9:27 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-23 9:35 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-04-22 21:48 ` Adam Brewster
2010-04-22 22:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-23 9:15 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 10:39 ` The index (Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added) Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-22 22:38 ` Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added Jon Seymour
2010-04-23 0:04 ` Adam Brewster
2010-04-23 9:25 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 9:14 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 9:39 ` Björn Steinbrink
2010-04-23 11:44 ` Sergei Organov
2010-04-23 11:57 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-23 12:20 ` Sergei Organov
2010-04-23 14:23 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 18:59 ` Matthias Andree
2010-04-23 19:34 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 22:18 ` Matthias Andree
2010-04-23 22:25 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-23 23:38 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-24 4:38 ` Eric Raymond [this message]
2010-04-24 9:05 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-24 9:09 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-23 23:26 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-24 13:26 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-04-24 9:40 ` 'commit -a' safety (was: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added) Jakub Narebski
2010-04-24 9:56 ` 'commit -a' safety Miles Bader
2010-04-24 10:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-04-24 10:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-24 13:29 ` Miles Bader
2010-04-24 18:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-25 0:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-25 2:43 ` Miles Bader
2010-04-24 11:10 ` 'commit -a' safety (was: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added) Wincent Colaiuta
2010-04-24 11:48 ` 'commit -a' safety Jakub Narebski
2010-04-24 14:28 ` Joey Hess
2010-04-24 15:11 ` Mike Hommey
2010-04-24 16:42 ` 'commit -a' safety (was: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added) Petr Baudis
2010-04-24 16:59 ` Bug#578764: " Wincent Colaiuta
2010-04-24 17:47 ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-24 18:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-24 18:54 ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-24 19:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-24 19:35 ` Jacob Helwig
2010-04-24 19:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-24 19:57 ` Jacob Helwig
2010-04-24 23:47 ` 'commit -a' safety Jakub Narebski
2010-04-25 1:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-25 8:01 ` Jakub Narebski
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