Add cmd-line flag to disable metadata + UUID generation and commits

[jo-basevi]

Add cmd line flag --metadata-off/-M (better names?) to payu subcommands to disable metadata files or UUIDs being created. This uses control directory for experiment names. (so equivalent to metadata: enable: false in config.yaml)

Added this flag to sub-commands that create an Experiment class instance - so archive, collate, profile, run, setup, sweep and sync.

Closes #446

[pep8speaks]

Hello @jo-basevi! Thanks for updating this PR. We checked the lines you've touched for PEP 8 issues, and found:

• In the file payu/subcommands/args.py:

Line 289:2: W292 no newline at end of file

Comment last updated at 2024-08-22 04:01:06 UTC

[aidanheerdegen]

Wow that touched a lot! I appreciate the time it took to make all those changes.

Looks good to me. I have a question about the best way to propagate the argument through to subsequent commands, but trust your judgement and am happy to leave as-is, just wanted to point it out.

[coveralls]

coverage: 56.434% (+0.2%) from 56.234%
when pulling c2d10c3 on ACCESS-NRI:446-add-cmd-line-arg-to-disable-metadata
into fcd414b on payu-org:master.

[jo-basevi]

As the intention was to add a command-line argument to make it easier to update manifests for released configurations, running payu setup (and maybe payu sweep) would be the only commands required to have --metadata-off. If wishing to disable metadata for payu run/sync/collate jobs using the metadata: enable: false in config.yaml would be the best option. So that simplifies this PR quite a bit!

[aidanheerdegen]

LGTM. Thanks, and sorry for the extra work that wasn't required.