Flag for "don't ignore anything"

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I often want to see what files a process changes, and I run something like this and then run the process:

 watchexec --no-vcs-ignore --no-default-ignore --print-events -- echo 1

But I realize there are actually 4 separate ignore flags that I should be passing to see every file change:

        --no-default-ignore    Skip auto-ignoring of commonly ignored globs
        --no-global-ignore     Skip auto-loading of global or environment-wide ignore files
        --no-project-ignore    Skip auto-loading of project ignore files (.gitignore, .ignore, etc)
        --no-vcs-ignore        Skip auto-loading of VCS (Git, etc) ignore files

Describe the solution you'd like
What do you think about having --no-ignore (or a different name) to not have any ignores?

Describe alternatives you've considered

fd & rg both use -u as unrestricted, so passing -uu is unrestricted in hidden files and ignores. I'm not sure there's a hierarchy here such that we can progressively add on us, though.

[passcod]

The -u -uu thing is interesting but as you say, probably not applicable here. There's one added complexity for Watchexec in that --no-ignore was the previously-used name for --no-project-ignore, so it could be a bit confusing to have it "come back" as a different option! But doable, after 2.0.

Good idea! I'll add it to the pile :)

Update: tentatively slated for 2.1, such that --no-ignore will break completely on 2.0, prompting anyone relying on it to change.

[passcod]

As of 1.23.0 this is reduced to 2 flags: the existing --no-default-ignore, and the new --no-discover-ignore. I'm still planning to have --no-ignore as described above, though.

[passcod]

As of next version, there's --ignore-nothing. 2.1 will still have --no-ignore for naming consistency, which will have --ignore-nothing as alias, but at least this is now done.