Improve verbosity of updating

tldr-pages / tldr-c-client

C command-line client for tldr pages

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Improve verbosity of updating #63

Open Dentrax opened 2 years ago

Dentrax commented 2 years ago

I think it's worth mentioning to add more verbosity to --update flag since we could not see anything in this first place. How about:

How many data will be updated?
Which ones are changed?
Changed by whom?
From which commit to where?
etc.

$ tldr --update
# Nothing writes here

marchersimon commented 2 years ago

The first two points are quite doable. The second two would require to interact with the GitHub API, which is a bit more difficult. If you're interested, I've written my own C++ client, where I have implemented the first two points. That's how I did it:

Back up all old files
Create a hash for every file
Download the new files and also create a hash
Compare the hashes to see if the file changed

But as I already wrote in tldr-pages/tldr-c-client#62, this is a client specific issue, so it should be discussed there.