[chef] Unexpected Knife behavior and messages

[Hedge Hog < >]

Hi,
Not sure if this is a bug, or a feature, but in my experience it is
undesirable behavior:

Given a Client "monitor" exists
When you run `knife client create monitor --no-editor --admin --file
/tmp/monitor/.chef/monitor.pem`
Then the output contains:
       """
       INFO: Created (or updated) client[monitor]
       """
  And the file "/tmp/monitor/.chef/monitor.pem" contains nothing

I think it is better that the file pem not be created at all.  And
rather than the current INFO, a WARN message be issued:
WARN: Conflict. client[monitor] already exists

This warn message is consistent with the HTTP message that knife sees,
but somewhere along the way in knife it gets 'cured'

HTH
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