From 35a4c355fed0be5864f5725b684dda6862053384 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Veen-Birkenbach <kevin@veen.world>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:34:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat(cli): make --database-containers and
 --images-no-stop-required optional

Both default to an empty list so a pure file backup needs no dummy
arguments; an empty stop whitelist keeps the conservative stop-all
behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/baudolo/backup/cli.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/baudolo/backup/cli.py b/src/baudolo/backup/cli.py
index 44278e7..875b43e 100644
--- a/src/baudolo/backup/cli.py
+++ b/src/baudolo/backup/cli.py
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
     p.add_argument(
         "--database-containers",
         nargs="+",
-        required=True,
+        default=[],
         help="Container names treated as special instances for database backups",
     )
     p.add_argument(
         "--images-no-stop-required",
         nargs="+",
-        required=True,
+        default=[],
         help="Exact image references (repo:tag, incl. any registry prefix) whose containers must not be stopped during file backup",
     )
     p.add_argument(