Borgmatic without arguments/parameters should show usage help instead of starting a backup #262

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opened 2019-11-28 18:14:37 +00:00 by varac · 3 comments

varac commented 2019-11-28 18:14:37 +00:00

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I often type borgmatic and hit enter in order to get help on it's subcommands and it always confuses me that it starts a backup instead.
Most applications show their usage help without doing anything when called without arguments/parameters so I propose borgmatic to do the same.

I often type `borgmatic` and hit enter in order to get help on it's subcommands and it always confuses me that it starts a backup instead. Most applications show their usage help without doing anything when called without arguments/parameters so I propose borgmatic to do the same.

witten commented 2019-11-28 20:54:43 +00:00

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I agree that borgmatic is a little different than most command-line applications in this respect, but I don't think we could make a change like this without breaking a number of existing borgmatic uses (whether manual or automated) that rely on just running borgmatic directly without any arguments. And I think that's kind of the promise of borgmatic in some ways: Once you get your configuration file set up correctly, you don't have to pass any (or very many) arguments to borgmatic on the command-line.

I agree that borgmatic is a little different than most command-line applications in this respect, but I don't think we could make a change like this without breaking a number of existing borgmatic uses (whether manual or automated) that rely on just running `borgmatic` directly without any arguments. And I think that's kind of the promise of borgmatic in some ways: Once you get your configuration file set up correctly, you don't have to pass any (or very many) arguments to borgmatic on the command-line.

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nift4 commented 2020-05-06 05:45:02 +00:00

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I guess a config option disabled by default would be good for that.

I guess a config option disabled by default would be good for that.

witten commented 2020-05-06 17:05:35 +00:00

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Yup, that could certainly work!

Yup, that could certainly work!

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