From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raymond Subject: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:38:21 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20100424043821.GA21973@thyrsus.com> References: <20100422151037.2310.2429.reportbug@frosties.localdomain> <20100422155806.GC4801@progeny.tock> <4BD1EE10.4010009@gmx.de> <4BD21CAB.8060903@gmx.de> <20100423222522.GA21224@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Witten X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 24 06:38:34 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O5X8Q-0001DG-It for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:38:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751280Ab0DXEiX (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:38:23 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:35221 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750993Ab0DXEiW (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:38:22 -0400 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 555C3479E92; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:38:21 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael Witten : > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 17:25, Eric Raymond 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. -- Eric S. Raymond