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

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 22:43 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 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.
...
http://bazaar.canonical.com/DryRun

Is a draft spec about this, if you could help make this accurately
reflect your desires, it will help getting someone to implement it
precisely.

Cheers,
Rob

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