[OpenAFS-devel] Re: vos delentry -noexecute vs. -dryrun

[Russ Allbery]

Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net> writes:

> How about allowing both as you suggest, but also
> marking the 'vos delentry' help as:

>     -noexecute   (deprecated, same as -dryrun)
>     -dryrun      show what would be done, but don't do it

> And an opened ticket with milestone 1.7 to get rid
> of -noexecute ?

Sounds good to me, although I don't know that our ticket system has the
right fields for that.

> This raises another issue.  Across the commands allowing
> -dryrun, here are the explanations:

>   -dryrun     report without updating

>   -dryrun     no action

>   -dryrun     only list what would be done, don't do it

> I'd like to settle on:

>   list what would be done, don't do it

> May I make that change as well across the commands
> where -dryrun is allowed?

Also sounds good to me.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>