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Show an error message when --dry-run & --stats are both used (fixes b…
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milkey-mouse committed Nov 10, 2017
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When using ``--stats``, you will get some statistics about how much data was
added - the "This Archive" deduplicated size there is most interesting as that is
how much your repository will grow.
Please note that the "All archives" stats refer to the state after creation.
how much your repository will grow. Please note that the "All archives" stats refer to
the state after creation. Also, the ``--stats`` and ``--dry-run`` options are mutually
exclusive because the data is not actually compressed and deduplicated during a dry run.
See the output of the "borg help patterns" command for more help on exclude patterns.
See the output of the "borg help placeholders" command for more help on placeholders.
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help='create backup')
subparser.set_defaults(func=self.do_create)

subparser.add_argument('-n', '--dry-run', dest='dry_run', action='store_true',
group = subparser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
group.add_argument('-n', '--dry-run', dest='dry_run', action='store_true',
help='do not create a backup archive')
subparser.add_argument('-s', '--stats', dest='stats', action='store_true',
group.add_argument('-s', '--stats', dest='stats', action='store_true',
help='print statistics for the created archive')

subparser.add_argument('--list', dest='output_list', action='store_true',
help='output verbose list of items (files, dirs, ...)')
subparser.add_argument('--filter', metavar='STATUSCHARS', dest='output_filter',
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