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Re:In defense of Unix by hasenj on Saturday March 05, 2016 @08:09AM (#11229398)
I think command line tools (like say, git-config) manage one option at a time.

GUI tools tend to manage everything at once. Imagine the giant options box from MS Word 2003.

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Re:In defense of Unix by jimktrains2 on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:51AM (#11239171)
It still has to read in the current config, mutate it, and write it out.
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