Use case:
You're about to import 200 files with subdirectories
You think, you have configured ./.bzrignore correctly
... but you have doubts that after 'add' it imports
... files that you don't want
You stare the prompt:
$ bzr add *
And you've no courage to press that red-red-hot RETURN key....
I wish there were --dry-run option.
Jari