Henrik Warne • 1/31/2026

In Praise of –dry-run

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The article details the author's experience adding a --dry-run flag to a reporting application. It describes how this feature, inspired by tools like Subversion, allows previewing actions without execution, enabling quick sanity checks, configuration validation, and faster behavior testing during development.

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