`add -q`is not quiet as it should be

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Tue Oct 2 13:47:32 BST 2007


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Martin Pool wrote:
> On  2 Oct 2007, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
>> $ bzr add -q --dry-run
>> ignored 3 file(s).
>> If you wish to add some of these files, please add them by name.
>>
>> Something wrong here.
>> I tired to read this junk about ignored files.
>> Can -q force `add` to shut up about ignored?
> 
> I think it should, -q should not say anything aside from warnings and
> errors.

Agreed.

> But, I'm tired of that junk too.  Maybe we should just remove that
> message?  The intention of transparency is good, but I'm not sure it
> helps much.

As a seasoned user, I don't find it very informative.  It doesn't say
enough to be informative, because I always expect some files to be
ignored.  We used to list the matched ignore rules, and I think that
would be much more informative.  But possibly overkill.

I don't know whether it's helpful for a new user, though.  I think it
could be informative if they weren't expecting any files to be ignored.

Aaron
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