[Borgbackup] How to get the old -v behavior back?

[Adrian Klaver]

On 02/16/2016 04:22 AM, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in borgbackup 0.29 and earlier, borg create -v listed the files being
> processed on standard output, one per line, scrolling, so that one
> could scroll back through the log and see what happened.
>
> Borgbackup 0.30 does not list the file names any more, since the
> meaning of the --verbose switch was changed, and --verbose --progess
> now avoids scrolling by tabbing back on the same line and trying to
> pretty-print the output, losing the ability to scroll back in the
> process.
>
> I have tried a number of command line switch combinations to get the
> old behavior back, but have not succeeded.
>
> Is there a possibility to get the old behavior back?

Did you try?:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/0.30.1/docs/changes.rst

"For borg create, you need --list (additionally to -v) to see the long 
file list (was needed so you can have e.g. --stats alone without the 
long list)"

>
> If not, I will file an issue about that to either add another command
> line switch for the old behavior or to detect whether standard output
> is a terminal and if not, do not try fancy games with the terminal.
>
> Thanks for helping!
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>


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