Support for `flow --all` about flow-bin

[gabelevi]

Sorry for the delayed response!

flow --all is short for flow status --all. The reason flow status does not have an --all flag is as follows:

1. If there is no Flow server running, flow status starts a Flow server by running flow start
2. If there is a Flow server running, flow status just asks the servers for the errors

The --all flag is consumed by the server. It's the server that decides whether to check all files or just those with @flow. In case 1, flow status --all could just run flow start --all. But in case 2, what would happen if the Flow server was running without the --all flag? Would we restart the server? Or would we ignore the flag? This ambiguity is why flow status doesn't support the --all flag.

If you have a project that assumes the --all flag, you can add it to your .flowconfig.

[options]
all=true

Then whenever Flow runs, it will be as if the --all flag is set.

[trueter]

+1 :)

[CrocoDillon]

That makes sense, thanks! I didn't know about that option in the .flowconfig file, it's not in the docs.

[trueter]

[include]
.*/lib/helpers/.*

[ignore]
.*/node_modules/fbjs/.*
.*/node_modules/npmconf/.*
.*/node_modules/newrelic/.*
.*/node_modules/cjson/.*
.*/node_modules/bcryptjs/.*
.*/node_modules/config-chain/.*

[libs]
node_modules/flow-interfaces/interfaces

[options]
all=true

% flow                                                                                                                                                                                           
.flowconfig:16 Unsupported option specified! (all)

% npm ls |grep flow                                                                                                                                                                               8 ↵ ✖ ✹ ✭

npm ├─┬ [email protected]
├── [email protected]

Anything I'm missing?