dry-run option?

[JKrag]

Hi TouK I have recently been using your tool, and integrating it in a CD pipeline on Jenkins. During my testing and experimenting with reasonable configurations, I ran sputnik from command line on my local machine (usually on already closed change-sets). For this purpose, It would have been a great help to have a --dry-run option that did the whole analysis, but skipped reporting back to Gerrit. I actually started working on a pull-request, and have added the CliOption, but couldn't really figure out the 'correct' way to introduce the "no reporting" part in a generic matter.

Would you consider adding this feature? (I would happily send you my partial pull-request, but it is really only a couple of lines of code, and you can probably write those faster than pulling a PR).

Regards Jan

[SpOOnman]

Hi Jan

What's the point of dry run if you don't report it to Gerrit? You want to see results in console?

[JKrag]

Exactly. While I am experimenting with settings or tweaking things like check style settings, I might have to run the tool many times (from the console), and don't want to "spam" Gerrit with comments. I might also use the option temporarily while setting up Sputnik on a Jenkins pipeline, to make sure the Gerrit triggers and paths are set up correctly.

In the really ideal nice-to-have world, it would be nice if dry-run did some sort of pretty print to the console (like line by line), but not really that important.

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers, Jan