TW-294

- TW-294 Display UUID of task created by add (thanks to John West).

ChangeLog

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 - TW-279 ".monthly" unexpectedly appended to task annotation (thanks to Florian
          Hollerweger).
 - TW-285 DUETODAY doesn't give any output (thanks to Jostein Berntsen).
+- TW-294 Display UUID of task created by add (thanks to John West).
 - TW-306 Wrong date format in burndown view (thanks to Michele Santullo).
 - TW-752 task ID no longer defaults to info (thanks to Christopher Roberts).
 - TW-1243 Automatically insert ( ) around user-supplied filter, if any.

NEWS

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ New Features in taskwarrior 2.4.0
   - Regular expressions are now enabled by default.
   - The 'filter' verbosity token shows the complete filter used for the last
     command.
+  - The 'new-uuid' verbosity token shows the UUID of newly created tasks.
   - The 'info' report now breaks down urgency values.
 
 New commands in taskwarrior 2.4.0

src/Config.cpp

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ std::string Config::_defaults =
   "#verbose=no                                    # Provide regular feedback\n"
   "#verbose=nothing                               # Provide no feedback\n"
   "#                                              # Comma-separated list.  May contain any subset of:\n"
-  "#verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,affected,edit,special,project,sync,filter\n"
+  "#verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,new-uuid,affected,edit,special,project,sync,filter\n"
   "confirmation=yes                               # Confirmation on delete, big changes\n"
   "indent.annotation=2                            # Indent spaces for annotations\n"
   "indent.report=0                                # Indent spaces for whole report\n"

src/Context.cpp

@@ -484,6 +484,7 @@ bool Context::verbose (const std::string& token)
         verbosity[0]      != "footnote" &&  //
         verbosity[0]      != "label"    &&  //
         verbosity[0]      != "new-id"   &&  //
+        verbosity[0]      != "new-uuid" &&  //
         verbosity[0]      != "affected" &&  //
         verbosity[0]      != "edit"     &&  //
         verbosity[0]      != "special"  &&  //

src/commands/CmdAdd.cpp

@@ -55,7 +55,10 @@ int CmdAdd::execute (std::string& output)
   context.tdb2.add (task);
 
   if (context.verbose ("new-id"))
-    output = format (STRING_CMD_ADD_FEEDBACK, context.tdb2.next_id ()) + "\n";
+    output += format (STRING_CMD_ADD_FEEDBACK, context.tdb2.next_id ()) + "\n";
+
+  if (context.verbose ("new-uuid"))
+    output += format (STRING_CMD_ADD_FEEDBACK, task.get ("uuid")) + "\n";
 
   if (context.verbose ("project"))
     context.footnote (onProjectChange (task));

src/commands/CmdDuplicate.cpp

@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ int CmdDuplicate::execute (std::string& output)
       if (context.verbose ("new-id"))
         std::cout << format (STRING_CMD_ADD_FEEDBACK, context.tdb2.next_id ()) + "\n";
 
+      if (context.verbose ("new-uuid"))
+        std::cout << format (STRING_CMD_ADD_FEEDBACK, dup.get ("uuid")) + "\n";
+
       if (context.verbose ("project"))
         projectChanges[task->get ("project")] = onProjectChange (*task);
     }