Add shortened alias for --filter

[nategreen]

• I'd be willing to implement this feature (contributing guide)

Describe the user story

I type --filter quite a bit in my monorepo. Some percentage of the time, I type --filter instead. Plus, it's just kind of lengthy when I also need to type a package name / folder / etc. I'd love to just type something shorter, like I can for -f (force) or pnpm i.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'm not sure what would be a suitable letter for it. Since --force is taking up -f, maybe -F would be a good shortened version.

Describe the drawbacks of your solution

It's fairly close to -f for --force and if you mess it up that could have bad consequences.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Maybe -i because it's the next letter in "filter", or -m that might mentally map to "match."

[zkochan]

I would probably use -f but it will be a breaking change.

[zkochan]

@pnpm/collaborators should we make -f a short alias of --filter instead of --force? --force is not frequently used. But --filter is really frequent.

[kenrick95]

Mentally, it's true that -f generally meant --force, however if it's not frequently used in pnpm, then I'm fine with changing it to --filter.

[sodatea]

The only documented usage of --force is in pnpm publish: https://pnpm.io/cli/publish#--force
In npm there's a --force flag for npm install and npm init. pnpm also supports it in these commands.

So I think it's fine to make -f alias for --filter in most cases, but for these 3 commands, it would be ambiguous.

[nategreen]

Sorry to butt in, just throwing this out there though because I agree changing -f for install and such might be ambiguous/unexpected. What about:

• providing an argument to --recursive / -r?
• changing the name to something that doesn't start with F, e.g. --select, --packages, etc.?

[kenrick95]

changing the name to something that doesn't start with F

As some examples, Lerna & Turborepo uses --scope (with no shortcut)

[zkochan]

Is big -F OK? Here is a PR: #4342