FEATURE REQ: Add option --dry-run to 'add'

Erik Bågfors zindar at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 11:06:23 BST 2005


2005/9/14, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net>:
> 
> Use case:
> 
>     You're about to import 200 files with subdirectories
>     You think, you have configured ./.bzrignore correctly
>     ... but you have doubts that after 'add' it imports
>     ... files that you don't want
> 
> You stare the prompt:
> 
>     $ bzr add *
> 
> And you've no courage to press that red-red-hot RETURN key....
> I wish there were --dry-run option.

See bzr ignored which will list the files that are ignored.  So you
can double check before you run add.  Secondly, after you run add (but
before commit) you can always remove as well...

/Erik




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