Proposal

right now, --verbose has exactly one effect, which is to print more information for --version: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/558ac1cfb7c214d06ca471885a57caa6c8301bae/compiler/rustc_driver_impl/src/lib.rs#L884

this seems kind of silly. there are lots of other places where the compiler adds more info based on -Z verbose. some of these are quite useful to show in diagnostics, for example showing full types in a type error rather than eliding similar types with _. it would be nice to display those when --verbose is passed.

furthermore, it's confusing to have both --verbose and -Z verbose. i suggest renaming the internal flag (perhaps -Z verbose-internals makes it clear that it's not meant to be useful for anyone but compiler devs?).

; rg '\.verbose\(' compiler -l
compiler/rustc_driver_impl/src/pretty.rs
compiler/rustc_middle/src/mir/pretty.rs
compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/generics.rs
compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/print/pretty.rs
compiler/rustc_hir_typeck/src/expr.rs
compiler/rustc_infer/src/traits/structural_impls.rs
compiler/rustc_query_impl/src/plumbing.rs
compiler/rustc_infer/src/infer/error_reporting/mod.rs

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