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[Monotone-devel] Re: Dry run?
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Bruce Stephens |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: Dry run? |
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Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:42:07 +0100 |
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> writes:
> There have been many requests for peeking of all sorts, like to know
> what you would get from a server if you pulled, or what you would send
> during a push, or what files would be changed/dropped/renamed by an
> update, or...
>
> To cover all those cases, would it be a very bad idea to have a
> --dryrun option that a selection of commands would understand and
> respect? In some cases, it could work well with a few well written
> hooks.
I believe that was the intention, yes. Hmm, I thought the idea was
described in the wiki, but I don't see it. Anyway, my impression was
that Nathaniel et alles were thinking exactly along the lines of a
--dryrun (or some other suitable flag) as you describe.
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