--verbose flag removed in oras 1.3.0-beta.2

[flavioschuindt]

What happened in your environment?

The --verbose flag was removed in 1.3.0-beta.2:

In previous versions (e.g. 1.1.0) it used to work:

What did you expect to happen?

--verbose should continue to work in version 1.3.0-beta.2.

How can we reproduce it?

Try to use any subcommand with the --verbose flag.

What is the version of your ORAS CLI?

Version: 1.3.0-beta.2
Go version: go1.24.0
OS/Arch: darwin/amd64
Git commit: 87379d2
Git tree state: clean

What is your OS environment?

Mac OS Sonoma (14.7.2)

Are you willing to submit PRs to fix it?

• Yes, I am willing to fix it.

[TerryHowe]

https://github.com/oras-project/oras/pull/1553/files#diff-5b23d96c74ce66184121c5d744e98c46dca3b4f7b5bab1526c8d732d7a87186c

[flavioschuindt]

Thanks @TerryHowe. Looking at those changes, it seems that the behavior is different across commands. For example, if I try --verbose with oras login, it fails. With oras cp it works with a deprecation statement:

./oras cp --verbose
Flag --verbose has been deprecated, and will be removed in a future release.
Error: "oras cp" requires exactly 2 argument but got 0
Usage: oras cp [flags] <from>{:<tag>|@<digest>} <to>[:<tag>[,<tag>][...]]
Please specify exactly 2 argument as the source and destination for copying. Run "oras cp -h" for more options and examples

Without --verbose for oras login I still get some verbose output:

However, from a consumer perspective I think would be good to maintain the --verbose in ALL commands with the deprecation statement, essentially the behavior of oras cp --verbose and then only in a future release remove it entirely.

[TerryHowe]

That PR adds a verbose option to some commands like cp

[TerryHowe]

There was a discussion at the time about the breaking change, but I thought it was worth discussing again since we are still in beta.