Comment by troupo

> Here's two versions of the Unix Philosophy

Man, we're talking about git. It has never subscribed to this philosophy (and most programs in *nix don't)

Git does about fifteen thousand different things with about fifteen million flags.

And it was never designed. It was thrown together as a kitchen sink of useful things with commands adding new and crazy incantations as new things were added.

"Just write this script to do the useful thing" is a weird hill to die on