Robotidy should be more verbose

[bhirsz]

When running default command:

robotidy .

or

robotidy --check .

If nothing is formatted, nothing is printed - and it's not clear that anything actually was run. See black and isort output for example:

black --check .
10:51:22  All done! ✨ 🍰 ✨
10:51:22  35 files would be left unchanged.
isort --check .
10:51:23  Skipped 3 files

[bhirsz]

Example output

robotidy .
  3 files reformatted, 140 files left unchanged.

[ssallmen]

Robotidy does not tell about problems even when it detects some, when --check option is used. I would say that this is more of a bug than just enhancement.
Only thing it does is that the return code is False, no output on console whatsoever.

[bhirsz]

What about combining - - check and - - diff, does that work?

[ssallmen]

Yes, with --check --diff I will get what robotidy would fix but that is not good enough. I think it should at least state that some files would need changes, or even which files would be modified like black --check does.

[bhirsz]

Yeah, I agree - it will be implemented

[ssallmen]

Thanks, it would be great!