From 820446e2513c6e1306cef0eae806efd4941dbbb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timo Tijhof Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:59:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] maintenance: Add --dry-run option to deleteDefaultMessages.php For back-compat, keep the default as-is, because it is also used as a post-update script by the installer. But for convenience and safe manual use, do add a dry-run option. (Ideally this would be a --delete option and dry-run by default.) Change-Id: I3ca70f15f50b66f9d19fa705cef9a4aae2dd4e5c --- maintenance/deleteDefaultMessages.php | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/maintenance/deleteDefaultMessages.php b/maintenance/deleteDefaultMessages.php index 69f4f893fc..ba8662ac2e 100644 --- a/maintenance/deleteDefaultMessages.php +++ b/maintenance/deleteDefaultMessages.php @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ class DeleteDefaultMessages extends Maintenance { parent::__construct(); $this->addDescription( 'Deletes all pages in the MediaWiki namespace' . ' which were last edited by "MediaWiki default"' ); + $this->addOption( 'dry-run', 'Perform a dry run, delete nothing' ); } public function execute() { @@ -52,14 +53,23 @@ class DeleteDefaultMessages extends Maintenance { ); if ( $dbr->numRows( $res ) == 0 ) { - # No more messages left + // No more messages left $this->output( "done.\n" ); + return; + } + $dryrun = $this->hasOption( 'dry-run' ); + if ( $dryrun ) { + foreach ( $res as $row ) { + $title = Title::makeTitle( $row->page_namespace, $row->page_title ); + $this->output( "\n* [[$title]]" ); + } + $this->output( "\n\nRun again without --dry-run to delete these pages.\n" ); return; } - # Deletions will be made by $user temporarly added to the bot group - # in order to hide it in RecentChanges. + // Deletions will be made by $user temporarly added to the bot group + // in order to hide it in RecentChanges. $user = User::newFromName( 'MediaWiki default' ); if ( !$user ) { $this->error( "Invalid username", true ); @@ -67,7 +77,7 @@ class DeleteDefaultMessages extends Maintenance { $user->addGroup( 'bot' ); $wgUser = $user; - # Handle deletion + // Handle deletion $this->output( "\n...deleting old default messages (this may take a long time!)...", 'msg' ); $dbw = $this->getDB( DB_MASTER ); -- 2.20.1