revisit option descriptions

Signed-off-by: Jan Kowalleck <[email protected]>

Author: jkowalleck

README.md

@@ -57,20 +57,13 @@ $ yarn CycloneDX make-sbom
 
 ━━━ Options ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
-  --spec-version #0      Which version of CycloneDX to use.
-      (choices: "1.2", "1.3", "1.4", "1.5", default: "1.5")
-  --output-format #0     Which output format to use.
-      (choices: "JSON", "XML", default: "JSON")
-  --output-file #0       Path to the output file. Set to "-" to write to STDOUT.
-      (default: write to STDOUT)
-  --production,--prod    Exclude development dependencies.
-    (defaults to 'true' if the environment variable "NODE_ENV" is set to "production"')
-  --component-type #0    Type of component described by the generated SBOM. (choices: "application", "framework", "library", "container", "platform", "device-driver")
-      Default: application
-  --licenses             Include license information for components in generated SBOM. License information will always be absent for components that don't specify licenses unambigously.
-      Default: Licenses are not included in the SBOM.
-  --reproducible         Omit anything random or time-based from SBOM. If enabled consecutive runs of will result in identical files.
-      Default: false
+  --spec-version #0      Which version of CycloneDX to use. (choices: "1.2", "1.3", "1.4", "1.5", default: "1.5")
+  --output-format #0     Which output format to use. (choices: "JSON", "XML", default: "JSON")
+  --output-file #0       Path to the output file. Set to "-" to write to STDOUT (default: write to STDOUT)
+  --production,--prod    Exclude development dependencies. (default: true if the NODE_ENV environment variable is set to "production", otherwise false)
+  --mc-type #0           Type of the main component. (choices: "application", "framework", "library", "container", "platform", "device-driver", default: "application")
+  --licenses             Include license information for components in generated SBOM. License information will always be absent for components that don't specify licenses unambiguously.
+  --reproducible         Whether to go the extra mile and make the output reproducible. This might result in loss of time- and random-based values.
 
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sources/index.ts

@@ -44,49 +44,35 @@ class SBOMCommand extends BaseCommand {
   });
 
   specVersion = Option.String("--spec-version", {
-    description: `Which version of CycloneDX to use.
-
-      (choices: "1.2", "1.3", "1.4", "1.5", default: "1.5")`,
+    description: 'Which version of CycloneDX to use.\n(choices: "1.2", "1.3", "1.4", "1.5", default: "1.5")',
   });
 
   outputFormat = Option.String("--output-format", {
-    description: `Which output format to use.
-
-      (choices: "JSON", "XML", default: "JSON")`,
+    description: 'Which output format to use.\n(choices: "JSON", "XML", default: "JSON")',
   });
 
   outputFile = Option.String(`--output-file`, {
-    description: `Path to the output file. Set to "-" to write to STDOUT.
-
-      (default: write to STDOUT)`,
+    description: `Path to the output file.\nSet to "-" to write to STDOUT\n(default: write to STDOUT)`,
   });
 
   /* mimic option from yarn.
     - see  https://classic.yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/install/#toc-yarn-install-production-true-false
     - see https://yarnpkg.com/cli/workspaces/focus
    */
   production = Option.Boolean(`--production,--prod`, process.env.NODE_ENV=='production', {
-    description: `Exclude development dependencies.
-
-    (defaults to 'true' if the environment variable "NODE_ENV" is set to "production"')`,
+    description: 'Exclude development dependencies.\n(default: true if the NODE_ENV environment variable is set to "production", otherwise false)',
   });
 
-  componentType = Option.String("--component-type", {
-    description: `Type of component described by the generated SBOM. (choices: "application", "framework", "library", "container", "platform", "device-driver")
-
-      Default: application`,
+  componentType = Option.String("--mc-type", {
+    description: 'Type of the main component.\n(choices: "application", "framework", "library", "container", "platform", "device-driver", default: "application")',
   });
 
   licenses = Option.Boolean(`--licenses`, false, {
-    description: `Include license information for components in generated SBOM. License information will always be absent for components that don't specify licenses unambigously.
-
-      Default: Licenses are not included in the SBOM.`,
+    description: `Include license information for components in generated SBOM.\nLicense information will always be absent for components that don't specify licenses unambiguously.`,
   });
 
   reproducible = Option.Boolean(`--reproducible`, false, {
-    description: `Omit anything random or time-based from SBOM. If enabled consecutive runs of will result in identical files.
-
-      Default: false`,
+    description: 'Whether to go the extra mile and make the output reproducible.\nThis might result in loss of time- and random-based values.',
   });
 
   async execute() {