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Twirrim • today at 2:20 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I've biased towards this heavily in the last 8 or so years now.

I've yet to have anyone mistakenly modify anything when they need to pass --commit, when I've repeatedly had people repeatedly accidentally modify stuff because they forgot --dry-run.

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IgorPartola • today at 2:52 AM

I wouldn’t want most things to work this way:

    $ rm file.bin
    $ rm —-commit file.bin
    $ cat foo.txt > bar.txt
    $ cat foo.txt | tee —-write-for-real bar.txt
    $ cp balm.mp3 pow.mp3
    $ cp —-i-mean-it balm.mp3 pow.mp3
There is a time and a place for it but it should not be the majority of use cases.
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