Issue #6102 has been updated by Nigel Kersten.

Status changed from Needs Decision to Accepted
Assignee deleted (Nigel Kersten)
Target version set to Telly

If we're showing diffs, we should show the diff between nothing and the file.
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Feature #6102: Please show contents of created files when using --verbose
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6102

Author: Nick Moffitt
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: file
Target version: Telly
Affected Puppet version: 2.6.3
Keywords: file diff verbose noop
Branch: 


Let's say I run `puppet agent --environment=development -t --noop` on a client 
in order to get an idea of what changes *would* be made.  If I am replacing a 
file that already exists, I get a diff.  

Unfortunately if I am creating a file that did not previously exist (a 
situation that is common in development of new modules, which I would be eager 
to test this way), I see only something like `…/ensure: is absent, should be 
file (noop)` and no more.

Given that we know the source of the file, and have the ability to get its 
contents *somehow*, could we have some sort of 
really-no-I-want-verbosity-please option that permits us to see the contents of 
files that would be added?  

In the above scenario, the developer who gets an understated "I would make a 
file here" log line would have to go pawing through the module and manually 
reason out the contents of that file.  This is error-prone and defeats the 
purpose of this sort of dry-run testing.  It is difficult to get a review on a 
change when the results cannot be viewed in full.



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