From 6118b2f137b2239a24bb4a5544f031af7e94a2ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Allison Thackston <allison@allisonthackston.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:14:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add a verbose flag to the generator to print the output
 config

---
 docker/deploy.sh                  |  2 +-
 mkdocs_simple_plugin/generator.py | 14 ++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docker/deploy.sh b/docker/deploy.sh
index f8c4c4b55..fe7c603fd 100755
--- a/docker/deploy.sh
+++ b/docker/deploy.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ echo "config: ${INPUT_CONFIG}"
 INPUT_PUSH=${INPUT_PUSH:-"true"}
 echo "push: ${INPUT_PUSH}"
 
-mkdocs_simple_gen --config-file ${INPUT_CONFIG}
+mkdocs_simple_gen --config-file ${INPUT_CONFIG} --verbose
 
 if [[ "${INPUT_PUSH}" == "1" || "${INPUT_PUSH,,}" == "true" ]]; then
     git config --global user.name "${GITHUB_ACTOR}"
diff --git a/mkdocs_simple_plugin/generator.py b/mkdocs_simple_plugin/generator.py
index eaf2e32db..be2464b33 100644
--- a/mkdocs_simple_plugin/generator.py
+++ b/mkdocs_simple_plugin/generator.py
@@ -138,14 +138,24 @@ def setup_config(config_file="mkdocs.yml"):
 @click.command()
 @click.option("--config-file", default="mkdocs.yml",
               help="Set the configuration file.")
+@click.option("-v", "--verbose", is_flag=True,
+              help="Print the final configuration file.")
 @click.option('--build/--no-build', default=False,
               help="Build the site using mkdocs build.")
 @click.option('--serve/--no-serve', default=False,
               help="Serve the site using mkdocs serve.")
 @click.argument('mkdocs-args', nargs=-1)
-def main(config_file, build, serve, mkdocs_args):
+def main(config_file, verbose, build, serve, mkdocs_args):
     """Generate and build a mkdocs site."""
-    setup_config(config_file)
+    config = setup_config(config_file)
+    if verbose:
+        click.echo(yaml.dump(
+            data=config,
+            sort_keys=False,
+            default_flow_style=False,
+            Dumper=MkdocsConfigDumper
+        ).rstrip())
+
     args = mkdocs_args + ("-f", config_file)
     if build:
         os.system("mkdocs build " + " ".join(args))