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

Jari Aalto jari.aalto at cante.net
Wed Sep 14 20:43:21 BST 2005


Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> writes:

| 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?

Sorry, I'm helplessly Python illiteral. I'm only a bzr end-user.

Jari





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