alt Hacker NewsI like the opposite too, -commit or -execute as it is assumed running it with defaults is immutable as the dry run, simplifying validation complexity and making the go live explicit.
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Twirrim • today at 2:20 AM
I've biased towards this heavily in the last 8 or so years now.
I've yet to have anyone mistakenly modify anything when they need to pass --commit, when I've repeatedly had people repeatedly accidentally modify stuff because they forgot --dry-run.
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xyse53 • today at 2:23 AM
Yeah I'm more of a `--wet-run` `-w` fan myself. But it does depend on how serious/annoying the opposite is.
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lazide • today at 4:34 AM
Just don’t randomly mix and match the approaches or you are in for a bad time.
There was a tool I used some time ago that required typing in a word or phrase to acknowledge that you know it's doing the run for real.
Pros and cons to each but I did like that because it was much more difficult to fat finger or absentmindedly use the wrong parameter.