Option to log stuff

[Klimmbimmel]

I know, it is a typically design of shell programs of Unix-like software, to always print to standard output, but this is complemented with an ease of use to put output into a file (xyz > file.log).

This is different(?) on windows, so at least there, the output should be automatically logged, especially for those commands, which take a lot of time like merging or alike... Also I don't see an option to log output, that would also be a start :)

[bepaald]

Yeah, this has been requested before, and I always meant to do it. It's just a lot of work for little gains. But I already had a Logger class in another project, so I've finally started integrating that into this project as well.

It will be a while (maybe a long while) before this is finished, I first need to switch all existing std::couts to the new Logger option. When that is finished I'll enable the file-output and report back here. In the meantime, > file.log is still the way to go.

This is different(?) on windows,

The question mark is pretty interesting, have you actually tried? Because I'm not a big Windows user, but the last time I tried, redirecting output > worked exactly the same as on Linux.

[bepaald]

This should be finished now. It's a bit messy, but that is because output was messy before, and due to the amount of work I (mostly) just did a straight port to the new Logger class.

There should be no raw cout's in the project anymore (except commented out, or in the Logger class). The logger has an option to copy it's output to file. Use -l/--logfile <output.log> to write to 'output.log' while running.

If you see any problems with this, or have any other feedback, please let me know here (or open a new issue if you want).

Thanks for reporting!