On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Stefan Bellon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Apr, Jan Nijtmans wrote:
>
> > Yes, that would work fine. My question was not meant technical, but
> > regarding the documentation: If "--test|-n" is the new 'official'
> > option, and "--nochange" is deprecated, the documentation should be
> > adapted accordingly as well.
>
> If changing (and possibly breaking existing scripts), why not change it
> to something *really* meaningful and use something other tools use,
> e.g. make:
>
>   -n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
>                               Don't actually run any commands; just
>                               print them.
>
> -n as short and --dry-run as long option seem like a good choice.
>

I can go with --dryrun (I think without the "-" between "dry" and "run",
but that is a minor point that I won't insist on.)



>
> Greetings,
> Stefan
>
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