[TW-610] Prompts for confirmation to wait tasks when confirmation is set off

[taskwarrior]

Bryce Harrington on 2012-02-11T21:04:45Z says:

Not sure if it's a bug or I'm just doing something wrong:

humber:~$ task rc.confirmation=off rc.bulk=1000 804 modify wait:1d Modifying task 804 'run piglit manually against current Ubuntu devel on one machine'. This is a recurring task. Do you want to modify all pending recurrences of this same task? (yes/no) ^C

humber:~$ task _version 2.0.0.beta4

humber:~$ task show

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[taskwarrior]

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Created: 2012-02-11T21:04:45Z
Modified: 2014-02-09T02:06:30Z

[taskwarrior]

Bryce Harrington on 2012-02-11T21:40:18Z says:

I also tested current git and is still affected the same way.

[taskwarrior]

Bryce Harrington on 2012-02-13T17:38:11Z says:

I have a workaround for this added to taskhelm that I can ship with if you decide you'd like to postpone this bug from 2.0.0.

[taskwarrior]

Paul Beckingham on 2012-02-20T05:39:02Z says:

I'm rejecting this. That is not to say it isn't inconsistent, or unexpected, but here is the reason:

Confirmation in general is when taskwarrior asks for permission to do something that can modify data unexpectedly. That is overridable using rc.confirmation.

This case is a little different. It is taskwarrior asking whether or not it can escalate a change from one task to many tasks. Data is modified regardless of the answer, and so is in a different category. I'm reluctant to provide a way for this to be automated (easily) because it is dangerous, and the undo operation contains multiple steps.

Bryce has a workaround, which is the only reason why I can reject this - thanks for letting us know. I want taskhelm to work, but not at the expense of changing something I feel is important.

[taskwarrior]

Bryce Harrington on 2012-02-20T09:27:55Z says:

Hmm, here's an idea.

The issue you've stated is the riskiness of allowing escalation in situations that may cause too much data to be changed.

That's actually exactly the issue I'm trying to avoid (and perhaps failed to properly explain in my original report.) Whereas 'rc.confirmation=off' essentially is saying, "Assume 'yes' in all cases of just ordinary data change", what we want is something to "Assume 'no' in all cases of escalation". Sort of a 'rc.escalate=off' option.