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

From: Eric Raymond <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:38:21 -0400

Michael Witten <[email-masked]>:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 17:25, Eric Raymond <[email-masked]> 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>