Does `nowrite` ever take effect?
avdi opened this issue · comments
--dry-run
sets both nowrite(false)
and options.dry_run = true
. The thing is, so long as options.dry_run == true
, Task execution short-circuits before it ever gets to execute any FileUtils methods.
So the question is... does nowrite
/noop
ever take effect?
The only way I can find to get Rake to tell me what it would do (without doing it) is:
$ rake -E 'Rake.nowrite(true)'
(That's the behavior I expected from --dry-run
, honestly.)
So... are the noop
/nowrite
branches effectively dead code? Or am I missing something?
(For comparison, GNU Make's --dry-run
/-n
prints the commands it WOULD execute, without executing them.)
This also seems to make the when_writing
method useless, since it would always be true?