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

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 11:40 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 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.

This sounds mostly-reasonable to me. The only caveat being ui clutter...

Perhaps you could do up a patch and we can see what folk think?

Cheers,
Rob

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