[MRELEASE-563] help strings need help, they are not helpful out of context

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Brett Porter
• Reporter: Benson Margulies
• Created: 23/May/10 14:41
• Updated: 27/Sep/10 07:04
• Resolved: 27/Sep/10 07:04

Description

run mvn release:help, and see the following. The 'for more info' sentences are confusing and unhelpful.

 release a project with Maven, saving a lot of
  repetitive, manual work.

This plugin has 9 goals:

release:branch
  Branch a project in SCM. For more info see this example.

release:clean
  Clean up after a release preparation. For more info see this example.

release:help
  Display help information on maven-release-plugin.
  Call
    mvn release:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name>
  to display parameter details.

release:perform
  Perform a release from SCM. For more info see this example.

release:prepare
  Prepare for a release in SCM. For more info see this example.

release:prepare-with-pom
  Prepare for a release in SCM, fully resolving dependencies for the purpose of
  producing a 'release POM'. For more info see this example.

release:rollback
  Rollback changes made by a previous release. For more info see this