Dry Run Flag

[rolandostar]

It's often useful to preview changes before they are executed, especially when writing/overwriting files to disk. For that reason I suggest including a --dry-run flag which will output changes that would be performed in the system without actually changing them.

Output of the command in the case of reverse for example would be to print out the resulting file structure, while the non-reverse output could be the JSON contents. This would also enable pipe redirect workflows, where the stdout of TTSModManager is then piped to a different program.

[argonui]

It's easy to imagine a world where the output is very very long. Would patch file syntax be the ideal output if you're looking to pipe it?

[rolandostar]

Patch file would kinda work, on everything else other than luascript it'd show up fine, because Lua scripts are stored in a single line so even a small change in a big script would still have a big output.

You could hide this maybe with an additional flag, or to include in the document to pipe the patch file format output to more or less