easy way to say "ignore this src" (without deleting, run the image instead) about cage HOT 10 CLOSED

(don't make it a dotfile because then you will pull your hair out trying to figure out why cage isn't running it from src/ :))

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Thank you for the suggestion! This sort of feedback is really valuable.

This is definitely on the TODO list; I'm just trying to think of a way to do it that isn't hugely confusing.

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for what it's worth, we used to have a checkin / checkout commands... when you wanted to know what was in image vs src mode, you just said status

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We do already have the equivalent of status. Try cage repo list for an overview. If I implemented this using a CLI interface, you'd be able to see the full status there. Hopefully including git stuff some day (see #13).

The original cage's checkin and checkout commands were mostly replaced with the mode command, IIRC. Except implementing this would be much easier using the dotfile (.conductor/local.yml, for example) you say that you don't want. :-)

Is it reasonable to ask people to run cage repo list if they're trying to figure out why a repo isn't getting mounted? That seems more obvious to me than having magic files tucked away in various directories.

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sure

while you're at it, why not just make it cage repo (implied "list")

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why not just make it cage repo (implied "list")

cage repo triggers the help screen for all the repo-related commands, of which there will be several more. It's slightly tricky to have both cage repo and cage repo clone both be valid commands, though not impossible. I might rename it to cage repo status, though.

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There might be a more succinct and global cage status at some point as well.

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this is pretty urgent, because i don't like deleting or moving src repos, but at this point i have almost everything in my src dir... probably not healthy to run the app with a bunch of code that is more likely than images to go out of date

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(in other words, src dirs are more likely to bitrot than image dirs, but i don't want to constantly rm or mv them...)

@emk ack my impression that this is urgent vs. https://github.com/faradayio/cage/milestone/1 ?

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@seamusabshere It turns out that the lack of this makes #24 (already on the short list) really awkward in practice. Bumping onto the short list for the initial announcement.

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