`add -q`is not quiet as it should be
Martin Pool
mbp at canonical.com
Wed Oct 3 02:44:53 BST 2007
On 2 Oct 2007, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > 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.
It's also less necessary now that we have no builtin default ignore
list. A new user running init, add now won't have anything ignored.
I propose that we
- remove the message
- add clear text to the help of add saying that it follows ignore
rules and you can find out what happened by running bzr ignored
and maybe
- make add -v show files that it ignored, as well as files that were
added
--
Martin
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