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[jira] Closed: (MPH-29) help:describe should be way more helpful when no arguments are provided

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-29?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Vincent Siveton closed MPH-29.
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         Assignee: Vincent Siveton
       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 2.1

Improved the error message in [r683221|http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=683221&view=rev]

> help:describe should be way more helpful when no arguments are provided
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MPH-29
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-29
>             Project: Maven 2.x Help Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Dan Fabulich
>            Assignee: Vincent Siveton
>             Fix For: 2.1
>
>
> Right now if you "mvn help:describe" with no further arguments you get an error: "You must either specify 'groupId' and 'artifactId', or a valid 'plugin' parameter."
> The people who are using help:describe don't necessarily know how help:describe works yet; if they did, they might be clever enough to use "mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help -Dmojo=describe" to figure out how help:describe works.
> This error message should be more like a paragraph long, and should include valid working examples.  It could be copied from the apt doc for the help plugin.

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