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docs: consolidate docs and help for package spec #5048

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@wraithgar wraithgar commented Jun 21, 2022

Many of our commands parse their args via
npm-package-arg, which is a good
standard way of parsing a "package" argument. However the docs
surrounding these args are not very consistent. This can lead to
confusion in commands such as npm publish where the behavior is
slightly different than in the past due to this.

This adds a new help command npm help package-spec that describes what
this argument is, and can be, and also updates all the commands that
interpret their args this with to refer to them as <package-spec>. It
also adds a link to the new help page on their docs pages.

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no statistically significant performance changes detected

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app-large clean lock-only cache-only cache-only
peer-deps
modules-only no-lock no-cache no-modules no-clean no-clean
audit
npm@8 38.852 ±1.31 20.886 ±0.08 18.701 ±0.11 21.449 ±0.55 3.382 ±0.04 3.315 ±0.02 2.755 ±0.14 13.058 ±0.09 2.621 ±0.02 3.733 ±0.02
#5048 38.830 ±1.13 20.742 ±0.47 19.332 ±0.19 23.073 ±0.01 3.422 ±0.09 3.410 ±0.02 2.778 ±0.00 13.386 ±0.01 2.760 ±0.02 4.107 ±0.16
app-medium clean lock-only cache-only cache-only
peer-deps
modules-only no-lock no-cache no-modules no-clean no-clean
audit
npm@8 28.165 ±1.15 15.397 ±0.13 13.864 ±0.17 14.760 ±0.16 3.024 ±0.03 3.021 ±0.10 2.800 ±0.13 9.500 ±0.10 2.489 ±0.04 3.383 ±0.00
#5048 28.451 ±1.40 16.066 ±0.10 13.744 ±0.31 15.335 ±0.40 3.102 ±0.01 3.052 ±0.00 2.742 ±0.07 9.556 ±0.15 2.537 ±0.05 3.440 ±0.00

Many of our commands parse their args via
[npm-package-arg](https://npm.im/npm-package-arg), which is a good
standard way of parsing a "package" argument.  However the docs
surrounding these args are not very consistent.  This can lead to
confusion in commands such as `npm publish` where the behavior is
slightly different than in the past due to this.

This adds a new help command `npm help package-spec` that describes what
this argument is, and can be, and also updates all the commands that
interpret their args this with to refer to them as `<package-spec>`.  It
also adds a link to the new help page on their docs pages.
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Closes #4126

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When I run help on this branch, it doesn't match the response properly.

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@wraithgar wraithgar requested a review from fritzy June 22, 2022 13:44
@fritzy fritzy dismissed their stale review June 22, 2022 18:34

different approach later

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