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

[Jari Aalto]

Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 22:43 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
| > | > 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.
> ...
> 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.

Thanks, 

That's pretty much it, although you don't have name me there. John Doe
will do for an example :-) 

Another commonly used option that could be used in place od --dry-run
is "--test". It could perhaps better suit for short option "-t" later

Implementing the feature I suppose would be quite easy. Just check if
the TEST is in effect and skip the portions which would make the
modifications and print the messages instead.

Jari