Feature Request: Control how verbose output is

As described in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/got-your-back/verbose|sort:date/got-your-back/50TDppD3-5E/971Z6SwtFwAJ, it would be helpful to have optionally quieter output.

Full steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Run GYB (especially as a cron job)
2. See many lines showing all updates

Expected outcome (what are you trying to do?): I’d like to optionally see less output. I’d think that a numeric --verbose=<#> argument would cover what I’m thinking of. The levels that occur to me are:

1. Silent except for fatal errors
2. Warnings but no other information
3. Everything from lower levels and statistics on completion of a step but not status messages during the step
4. Everything from lower levels and status messages during the step (this is the current output)
5. Everything from lower levels and the current output from --debug

[scelfo]

Hi, any chance this could be picked up again? From the comments it sounds like the pull request is very close.

[jay0lee]

Sorry it’s taken me forever to take a look. In general it looks good. rewrite_line() was an attempt by me to let GYB “say” more while taking less space. However it clearly made a mess for scheduled jobs and it’s probably outlived it’s usefulness. I suggest we try just doing away with it and making all of those calls just call logging at an appropriate level instead.

Also, what was the reasoning behind making DEBUG the default level and logging most informative messages under that instead of INFO?