On 2023-10-23 22:19, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 12:29:12PM -0700, Jacob Stopak wrote:
Those arrows showing how things move only really apply to "simulating"
(dry runs) for specific commands like add, restore, rm, commit, stash,
etc, so making the --table proposal a default status output would
still
miss those scenarios.
you're too focused on the status quo of your own tool. :-)
there is really nothing that would speak against the real commands
reporting what they just *actually did*. this would seem rather
helpful for noobs and other insecure users.
if one really wanted, "you can also use this with --dry-run" could be
part of the hint that would say how to turn off the extra verbosity
(or just the hint itself, if one likes the verbosity).
The hint should be about how to turn the tables and verbosity on, not
how to get rid of it.
one could even go one step further and put at least the destructive
commands into interactive/confirmation mode by default. but that's
probably a bridge too far, as it would be potentially habit-forming in
a bad way.
regards
