Hello. There are many cases in which pijul subcommands return nothing. I would rather prefer if it returned something. I tried to look for a --verbose flag, but to no avail.

Examples:

$ pijul init

Currently does not return anything. git at least returns “Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/foo/.git/”. I think pijul should return something, too.

$ pijul change

Currently returns nothing at all and I have no idea why. I created a file, still returned nothing, I pijul add’d the file, still nothing. It should really print something as to what is going on.

There are probably a couple of more such commands. I think pijul should return some output in all cases to give the user a clue about what is going on, why cannot it do something, or if it did something, and so forth.

I was about to open this same discussion, but found it here already.

Other commands that need output: add, key, list, log, git, fork.

pijul add . shows nothing. It ignores the dot and nothing is added. If you use pijul add * then it adds everything, but doesn’t say anything different.

pijul add . adds nothing. This should be an error instead. The alternative which probably does what the user wants is pijul add -r ., which adds everything under the current directory recursively.