I don't want to repeat myself, my reply is in the original thread, however, in addition, you will note that some tasks take a lot of flags, documenting all flags for each task would make the output of ./gradlew tasks unreadable.
So I recommend not doing that. On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Jacques Le Roux < [email protected]> wrote: > Because I'm not satisfied with (eg) > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------ > > "gradlew help --task pullPluginSource" > > :help > Detailed task information for pullPluginSource > Path > :pullPluginSource > Type > Task (org.gradle.api.Task) > Description > Download and install a plugin from source control > Group > OFBiz Plugin > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------ > > In other words, I have to look into the README file each time I don't > remember the string to pass behind -P , here pluginId > > So I'd like to change the description > -task pullPluginSource(group: ofbizPlugin, description: 'Download > and install a plugin from source control') { > +task pullPluginSource(group: ofbizPlugin, description: 'Download > and install a plugin from source control, parameter: pluginId') { > > same for all tasks with parameters. > > Agreed? > > Jacques > > > > Le 17/03/2017 à 10:43, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit : > >> Why are you repeating conversations we already had? >> >> https://s.apache.org/E1dE >> >> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Jacques Le Roux < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> There was something very convenient with "Ant -p" "documentation": syntax >>> examples. >>> >>> I believe we miss that, at least found it when using "g help --task >>> pullPluginSource". You get what it does but not how to do it (syntax). >>> >>> Of course you can open the README.md file and look for reference but >>> that's tedious and counter-intuitive. >>> >>> Would you agree to add the syntax in descriptions of tasks with >>> parameters >>> ? >>> >>> Jacques >>> >>> >>> >
