Make --show-types list ? as the type if it doesn't know the type

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
perl
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by tracing the --show-types option in ack3 and reproduce the behavior with core/lib/Drupal/Component/Plugin/LICENSE.txt. Done means an unknown type is displayed as "?" instead of leaving the type blank.

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Description

feature

If --show-types can't determine a type, then it shows nothing

core/lib/Drupal/Component/Plugin/LICENSE.txt =>

It should show a question mark to explicitly say it doesn't know.

core/lib/Drupal/Component/Plugin/LICENSE.txt => ?
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