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help.rs

1// Copyright 2026 VKrishna04
2// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
3
4// The long-form help text: what `devp <command> --help` prints.
5//
6// `-h` stays short — one line per flag, no scrolling. `--help` (and `devp help
7// <command>`) gets these: the full description, the behaviour that is not obvious from
8// the flag list, and worked examples for every command and subcommand. The text is
9// kept in one file rather than inline in the derive so the CLI definition in `lib.rs`
10// stays readable, and because these paragraphs are documentation first — they carry
11// the same facts as `docs/CLI_REFERENCE.md`, and changing one means changing both.
12
13pub const INIT_LONG: &str = "\
14Crawl the given directory trees for Git repositories and register every one found, up \
15to 8 levels deep. Registration is one entry in dev-prune's own registry file — nothing \
16in the repository is created, changed or deleted.
17
18After registering, it runs the same integration pass as `devp setup` (installing \
19whatever is missing, reporting whatever it skipped) and the same quiet release check \
20as `devp update`.
21
22Registration is what makes a repository visible to `devp run`, `devp status` and the \
23background pass. Repositories are never auto-discovered at prune time: what dev-prune \
24touches is exactly what you registered.";
25
26pub const INIT_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
27EXAMPLES:
28  devp init                       Register repositories under the current directory
29  devp init ~/Code                Register everything under ~/Code
30  devp init ~/Code ~/Work/oss     Multiple trees in one pass
31  devp scan ~/Code                Same command — `scan` and `onboard` are aliases
32  DEV_PRUNE_NO_AUTO_SETUP=1 devp init ~/Code
33                                  Register repositories, install nothing
34
35UNDO:
36  devp undo                       Reverts the most recent init or link";
37
38pub const LINK_LONG: &str = "\
39Register one Git repository for pruning. The path defaults to `.`, so inside a \
40repository `devp link` is the whole command. Registration writes one entry to \
41dev-prune's registry; the repository itself is untouched.
42
43`--quiet` is the form the global Git hook invokes: it prints nothing (a hook fires \
44inside someone's commit, whose terminal is not dev-prune's to write to) and it skips \
45repositories whose `.devprune.json` sets `disable_hooks`, so a workspace that opted \
46out of auto-registration stays out.";
47
48pub const LINK_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
49EXAMPLES:
50  devp link                       Register the current directory
51  devp link ~/Code/my-app         Register a repository by path
52  devp link . --quiet             What the Git hook runs; silent, honours opt-outs
53
54UNDO:
55  devp undo                       Reverts the most recent init or link
56  devp unlink                     Unregister (keeps every file on disk)";
57
58pub const UNLINK_LONG: &str = "\
59Remove a repository from dev-prune's registry. This deletes the registry entry and \
60nothing else — no workspace file is touched, and the repository's `.devprune.json`, \
61if it has one, stays where it is.
62
63`--missing` removes every registered path whose directory no longer exists, instead \
64of one named repository. Deleted clones, reformatted drives and moved workspaces all \
65leave dead entries behind; `devp doctor` counts them in one warning and points here \
66rather than printing one `devp unlink` line per dead path.";
67
68pub const UNLINK_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
69EXAMPLES:
70  devp unlink                     Unregister the current directory
71  devp unlink ~/Code/old-app      Unregister a repository by path
72  devp unlink --missing           Drop every entry whose path no longer exists";
73
74pub const UNDO_LONG: &str = "\
75Revert the most recent `devp init` or `devp link`: whatever repositories that one \
76action registered are unregistered again. Only registration is undone — `undo` never \
77deletes files, and it is not the undo for a prune (that is `devp restore --last-run`).";
78
79pub const UNDO_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
80EXAMPLES:
81  devp undo                       Unregister whatever the last init/link registered
82
83RELATED:
84  devp restore --last-run         The undo for a prune pass — reinstalls what it deleted";
85
86pub const RUN_LONG: &str = "\
87Execute a prune pass: across every registered repository with no path, or on one \
88repository with `devp run <path>`. Each repository goes through the same gauntlet, \
89and a directory is deleted only when every check passes:
90
91  1. `ignore.devprune.json` in the root, or `\"ignore\": true` — skipped instantly.
92  2. Idle check: last commit and newest source mtime, against `idle_days` (15 by
93     default). `--ignore-idle` lifts this one check and nothing else.
94  3. Project discovery: the root and up to `scan_depth` levels below it (6 by
95     default), so a monorepo's every package is found.
96  4. The package manager's own binary must be present — a directory whose manager
97     is missing cannot be verified, so it is not touched.
98  5. Lockfile verification: the manager itself confirms the lockfile can rebuild
99     the directory. No flag bypasses this, and none ever will.
100  6. Size floor (`min_size_mb` / `--min-size`), symlink refusal, nested-repository
101     refusal.
102
103Interactively, a selection TUI shows what would be deleted before anything is; `-y` \
104skips the confirmation, and `--dry-run` reports what a pass would do without deleting \
105anything at all. Adapter names for `--only`/`--skip` are: npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, uv, \
106venv, poetry, cargo, go, gradle, maven — an unknown name is an error listing the \
107valid ones, not a silently empty pass. gradle and maven are opt-in (`devp config set \
108enable_gradle true`) and idle-gated separately by `build_idle_days`, because a build \
109directory takes far longer to get back than a dependency directory.
110
111`--except` is the safe spelling of \"clean up but keep the API project\": the named \
112repositories are never verified, never deleted and never restored, which beats \
113pruning them and downloading everything back. Entries match by full path or by \
114directory name, case-insensitively, `~` expanded.
115
116`--explain` answers \"why was that repository not pruned?\": every repository and \
117directory is listed with its verdict, including the states a normal pass keeps quiet \
118about — still active (with the actual age), opted out, under the size floor. It is \
119read-only and cannot be combined with `--json`.";
120
121pub const RUN_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
122EXAMPLES:
123  devp run --dry-run              What would be pruned, and why the rest would not
124  devp run                        Prune across all registered repositories (asks first)
125  devp run -y                     Same, no confirmation prompt
126  devp run .                      Prune only the current repository
127  devp run ~/Code/my-app --ignore-idle -y
128                                  Prune it even though it was touched recently
129  devp run --except api-service,~/Code/playground
130                                  Everything except the ones you name
131  devp run --only cargo,uv --dry-run
132                                  Only these package managers
133  devp run --skip venv --min-size 50
134                                  Skip venvs; ignore directories under 50 MiB
135  devp run --json --dry-run       One JSON document on stdout (schema in CLI_REFERENCE)
136  devp run --explain              Why each repository would or would not be pruned
137
138Run interactively with a terminal, `--json` also copies the document to the clipboard.
139A run in which any repository failed exits 1, even if others succeeded.";
140
141pub const STATUS_LONG: &str = "\
142The dashboard: every registered repository with its state (Candidate, Active, \
143Ignored, No Bloat, Path Missing, or an unreadable `.devprune.json`), its reclaimable \
144space, and its last activity. In a terminal this is an interactive TUI; piped or \
145redirected it prints a plain table; `--json` replaces either with one document and \
146changes nothing at all.
147
148Sizes are what deleting the directory actually gives back: bytes hardlinked into a \
149pnpm or bun store are measured per file and excluded, because the store keeps them.
150
151TUI KEYS:
152  Up/Down, j/k      Move           PgUp/PgDn        Jump ten rows
153  Home/End, g/G     First/last     p                Prune-select mode (candidates pre-selected)
154  Space             Toggle row     a                Toggle all candidates
155  Enter             Prune the selection             i    Toggle ignore in .devprune.json
156  Esc               Leave mode / exit               q, Ctrl-C   Exit
157
158SHORTCUTS:
159  devp status daemon              = devp config daemon status
160  devp status . hook              = devp config hook . status";
161
162pub const STATUS_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
163EXAMPLES:
164  devp status                     The dashboard (TUI in a terminal, table when piped)
165  devp status --top 10            Only the ten biggest repositories; totals unaffected
166  devp status --drift             What would a prune refuse on, and how to record it
167  devp status --json | jq '.totals.reclaimable_bytes'
168                                  Machine-readable; stdout carries the document only
169  devp status --top 5 --json      The trim is reported as a top-level \"top\" field
170
171Run interactively with a terminal, `--json` also copies the document to the clipboard.";
172
173pub const STATS_LONG: &str = "\
174What dev-prune has already done, as opposed to what it could do next: lifetime space \
175reclaimed, how many prune passes there have been, the most recent pass and how to \
176undo it, the last passes, and the repositories that have given back the most. \
177Read-only — it reads the registry and touches nothing.
178
179On a machine upgraded from before 1.1.0 the lifetime total has been accumulating \
180since 1.0.0, but per-repository figures and the pass history only start at 1.1.0 — \
181the report (and `history_starts_at` in the JSON) says so rather than implying \
182nothing ever happened.";
183
184pub const STATS_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
185EXAMPLES:
186  devp stats                      The report
187  devp stats --json | jq '.lifetime.bytes_freed'
188                                  Lifetime bytes as a number
189
190Run interactively with a terminal, `--json` also copies the document to the clipboard.";
191
192pub const MAN_LONG: &str = "\
193Render the manual as man pages, from the same clap definitions `--help` prints, so the \
194manual cannot describe a flag the program does not have. With no arguments the main \
195`devp(1)` page goes to stdout, ready to pipe into `man -l -`; `--dir` writes the full \
196set (`devp.1`, `dev-prune.1`, and one `devp-<command>.1` per subcommand) into a \
197directory, ready to copy onto `manpath`.";
198
199pub const MAN_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
200EXAMPLES:
201  devp man | man -l -             Read the main page now (Linux/macOS)
202  devp man --dir ./man            Write the full set into ./man
203  sudo cp man/*.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/   Install them system-wide";
204
205pub const COMPLETIONS_LONG: &str = "\
206Print a shell completion script to stdout — the script and nothing else, because the \
207output is meant to be redirected or eval'd and anything extra becomes a shell error \
208on every new terminal.
209
210The script is generated from the same argument definition the binary parses with, so \
211a flag cannot exist in one and be missing from the other. It completes whichever name \
212invoked it: `devp completions bash` completes `devp`, `dev-prune completions bash` \
213completes `dev-prune` — generate one for each name you actually type.";
214
215pub const COMPLETIONS_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
216EXAMPLES:
217  source <(devp completions bash)                       Bash, current shell
218  devp completions bash > ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/devp
219  devp completions zsh  > ~/.zfunc/_devp                Zsh (a directory on $fpath)
220  devp completions fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/devp.fish
221  devp completions powershell | Out-File -Append -Encoding utf8 $PROFILE
222                                                        PowerShell, permanently";
223
224pub const CACHES_LONG: &str = "\
225Find every package-manager cache and store on the machine, size each one, and print \
226the command that clears it — largest first, with a total. It deletes nothing, and no \
227flag makes it delete anything: a cache is shared by every repository, so no single \
228lockfile can prove its contents recoverable, which is the bar every dev-prune \
229deletion has to clear. Clearing a cache also turns the next `devp restore` into a \
230download — so the clear command is printed for you to run deliberately.
231
232Covered: npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, uv, pip, cargo, go, maven, gradle, nuget, vcpkg and \
233conan. Each manager is asked where its cache is (`npm config get cache`, `go env \
234GOMODCACHE`, …) rather than assumed, with read-only queries run from your home \
235directory; a manager that is not installed falls back to the conventional location, \
236because a cache left behind by an uninstalled manager is exactly the multi-gigabyte \
237directory nobody remembers.";
238
239pub const CACHES_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
240EXAMPLES:
241  devp caches                     The table, largest first, with clear commands
242  devp caches --json | jq '.summary.total_bytes'
243                                  Machine-readable
244
245Run interactively with a terminal, `--json` also copies the document to the clipboard.";
246
247pub const CONFIG_LONG: &str = "\
248Everything configurable lives under here: global settings (get/set/show/wizard), the \
249per-repository `.devprune.json` (project), the OS background scheduler (daemon), the \
250global Git auto-registration hooks (hook), and the file-manager icon registration \
251(icon).
252
253SHORTHANDS — `daemon`, `hook` and `icon` work without the leading `config`, and the \
254action words people reach for are accepted:
255  devp hook install       = devp config hook enable
256  devp hook uninstall     = devp config hook disable
257  devp daemon on / off    = devp config daemon enable / disable
258  devp icon               = devp config icon
259Accepted action words: enable/install/on, disable/uninstall/remove/off, status/show. \
260Anything else is rejected — a mistyped action never silently degrades into a status \
261report.";
262
263pub const CONFIG_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
264EXAMPLES:
265  devp config show                Every global setting and its value
266  devp config get idle_days       One setting
267  devp config set idle_days 30    Change it (rejects out-of-range values)
268  devp config wizard              Walk through every setting, Enter keeps the current
269  devp config project .           Inspect or create this repo's .devprune.json
270  devp config daemon status       Is the background pass scheduled?
271  devp config . daemon disable    Opt this repository out of the background pass
272  devp config hook enable --chain Take core.hooksPath, forwarding to the tool holding it
273  devp config icon                Register the .devprune.json icon and schema";
274
275pub const CONFIG_GET_LONG: &str = "\
276Print one global setting's current value. The keys, defaults and meanings:
277
278  idle_days                  15     Days untouched before a repo is a candidate
279  min_size_mb                0      Smallest directory worth deleting (0 = no floor)
280  scan_depth                 6      Directory levels below a repo root discovery descends (1-32)
281  require_confirmation       true   Whether a prune pass asks before deleting
282  allow_manifest_rewrite     false  Whether verification may repair a drifted lockfile
283  command_timeout_secs       600    Ceiling on any one package-manager command
284  auto_setup                 true   Whether the integration pass may run unattended
285  auto_daemon                true   …and may register the OS scheduler
286  check_interval_days        2      How often the scheduler runs a pass
287  auto_hooks                 true   …and may install the global Git hooks
288  auto_hooks_chain           false  …and may chain onto another tool's core.hooksPath
289  update_check               true   Whether the periodic release check runs
290  update_check_interval_days 7      Minimum gap between two release checks
291  update_check_timeout_secs  5      How long that one request may hang
292
293Three have a per-repository override in `.devprune.json`, where they win for that \
294tree only: `idle_days` (spelled `override_idle_days` there), `min_size_mb` and \
295`scan_depth`. The rest are deliberately global — a committed `.devprune.json` must \
296not be able to grant a repository `allow_manifest_rewrite` over its own manifests.";
297
298pub const CONFIG_GET_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
299EXAMPLES:
300  devp config get idle_days
301  devp config get update_check";
302
303pub const CONFIG_SET_LONG: &str = "\
304Change one global setting. A value outside the accepted range is rejected with the \
305range in the message, never silently clamped — `scan_depth 0` and `scan_depth 40` are \
306both refused outright. Keys are the same list `devp config get --help` shows.";
307
308pub const CONFIG_SET_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
309EXAMPLES:
310  devp config set idle_days 30
311  devp config set min_size_mb 50
312  devp config set command_timeout_secs 1200
313  devp config set update_check false    Turn the release check off for good";
314
315pub const CONFIG_SHOW_LONG: &str = "\
316Print every global setting with its current value. With `--update`, also run a sync \
317pass across all registered repositories, refreshing each one's `.devprune.json` \
318scaffolding without touching values you have changed.";
319
320pub const CONFIG_SHOW_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
321EXAMPLES:
322  devp config show
323  devp config show --update";
324
325pub const CONFIG_PROJECT_LONG: &str = "\
326Inspect a repository's `.devprune.json`, or create it when missing. The file holds \
327the per-repository overrides — `override_idle_days`, `min_size_mb`, `scan_depth`, \
328`ignore`, `disable_daemon`, `disable_hooks` — and carries a `$schema` line so any \
329editor with JSON Schema support validates and completes it.
330
331`--update` refreshes the file's scaffolding (schema pointer, missing keys) while \
332keeping every value you have set. A file that does not parse is refused, not reset — \
333fix it, or pass `--update` deliberately.
334
335Writing the file also records it in the repository's `.git/info/exclude`, so the \
336config — one machine's preference, not part of the project — never shows up in \
337`git status`. The shared, tracked `.gitignore` is never modified.";
338
339pub const CONFIG_PROJECT_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
340EXAMPLES:
341  devp config project .           Show (or create) this repository's config
342  devp config project ~/Code/api
343  devp config project . --update  Refresh scaffolding, keep your values";
344
345pub const CONFIG_DAEMON_LONG: &str = "\
346The OS background scheduler — Task Scheduler on Windows, launchd on macOS, systemd \
347timers on Linux — which runs `devp run --daemon` every `check_interval_days` days.
348
349Globally: `enable` registers the schedule, `disable` removes it, `status` reports \
350it. With a path first, the same words act on one repository via `disable_daemon` in \
351its `.devprune.json`: the machine-wide pass keeps running, that repository sits it \
352out.";
353
354pub const CONFIG_DAEMON_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
355EXAMPLES:
356  devp daemon status              Machine-wide scheduler state
357  devp daemon enable              Register the schedule (also: install, on)
358  devp daemon disable             Remove it (also: uninstall, remove, off)
359  devp config . daemon disable    This repository opts out of the background pass
360  devp config ~/Code/api daemon enable";
361
362pub const CONFIG_HOOK_LONG: &str = "\
363The global Git hooks (via `core.hooksPath`) that auto-register any repository you \
364commit in — `devp link --quiet`, silent, honouring opt-outs. `enable` installs them, \
365`disable` removes them (restoring what was there), `status` reports them. With a \
366path first, the same words act on one repository via `disable_hooks`.
367
368Git has exactly one global `core.hooksPath` and no way to chain two, so a tool that \
369holds it (husky, pre-commit, lefthook) shuts every other one out. `--chain` is the \
370way through: dev-prune takes the slot and writes, per hook, a shim that does its own \
371work and then execs the same-named hook in the displaced directory — their hooks \
372keep firing, their exit codes still block commits. `devp hook uninstall` puts the \
373original back. The chain snapshots the other tool's hooks at install time; `devp \
374hook status` reports any that have drifted, and `devp hook install --chain` rebuilds.";
375
376pub const CONFIG_HOOK_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
377EXAMPLES:
378  devp hook status                Installed? Chained? Drifted?
379  devp hook install               Take the free core.hooksPath slot
380  devp hook install --chain       Take a slot husky/pre-commit/lefthook holds, forwarding
381  devp hook uninstall             Restore the previous core.hooksPath
382  devp config . hook disable      This repository opts out of auto-registration";
383
384pub const CONFIG_ICON_LONG: &str = "\
385Register `*.devprune.json` with the OS file manager and write the icon files and the \
386JSON Schema into the config directory. On Linux this is a complete registration \
387(shared-mime-info plus hicolor icons — Nautilus, Dolphin, Thunar, Nemo, PCManFM). On \
388Windows, Explorer resolves icons by last extension only, so the config folder gets \
389its own icon instead of hijacking every `.json` on the machine. On macOS a UTI must \
390come from an application bundle, which a single binary is not.
391
392It also prints an editor snippet to paste yourself — it never edits your editor \
393settings, your PATH, or your shell startup files.";
394
395pub const CONFIG_ICON_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
396EXAMPLES:
397  devp icon                       Same command, without the leading `config`";
398
399pub const CONFIG_WIZARD_LONG: &str = "\
400Walk through every global setting one at a time, showing the current value and the \
401default; Enter keeps what is there. It runs itself once on a first install — so the \
402defaults are something you agreed to, not something you inherited — and never runs \
403unattended: no TTY means skipped, not guessed at.";
404
405pub const CONFIG_WIZARD_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
406EXAMPLES:
407  devp config wizard";
408
409pub const RESTORE_LONG: &str = "\
410Put dependencies back: detect each project's lockfile and run its manager's install \
411(`npm ci`, `pnpm install`, `uv sync`, `cargo fetch`, …). Mirrors pruning — every \
412project in the tree is restored, each by its own manager, so a monorepo comes back \
413whole.
414
415`--last-run` restores exactly what the most recent prune pass deleted, across every \
416repository it touched, and nothing else: the undo for a `devp run`. Each prune \
417records what it removed (a dry run records nothing), and the flag fails cleanly if \
418no pass has been recorded yet. It cannot be combined with a path — silently ignoring \
419the path would restore the wrong thing.";
420
421pub const RESTORE_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
422EXAMPLES:
423  devp restore                    Restore the current directory's projects
424  devp restore ~/Code/my-app
425  devp restore --last-run         Undo the last prune pass, everywhere it acted";
426
427pub const UPDATE_LONG: &str = "\
428Print the installed version, ask GitHub's public API for the latest release, and \
429show the upgrade command for how this copy was installed. By default it never \
430downloads or replaces its own binary; `--install` runs the upgrade through the \
431package manager that owns this copy (cargo, npm, uv, pipx, or the installer \
432script), and `devp config set auto_update true` runs that by itself at the end of \
433a prune pass when a newer release is known. An upgrade never interrupts the \
434scheduler: the scheduled pass runs a managed copy that refreshes itself from the \
435new binary on its next run.
436
437The same check also runs quietly from `devp run` and `devp status`, at most once \
438every `update_check_interval_days` (7 by default), printing one line only when a \
439newer version exists. It is the only thing in dev-prune that opens a network \
440connection, sends no body and no identifier, and `devp config set update_check \
441false` turns it off for good; `--offline` skips it for one run without changing the \
442setting.";
443
444pub const UPDATE_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
445EXAMPLES:
446  devp update                     Version, latest release, upgrade command
447  devp update --install           Upgrade now, through the owning channel
448  devp update --offline           No network this run";
449
450pub const SKILL_LONG: &str = "\
451Teach your AI assistant this tool. Exports SKILL.md — the full agent-facing manual: \
452every command, the JSON contracts, the safety invariants, the troubleshooting tree — \
453into the config directory, installs it into any detected agent skills directory \
454(`~/.claude/skills/dev-prune/`, the same install `devp setup` performs), and prints \
455ready-to-copy onboarding prompts for assistants without one (Gemini Antigravity, \
456Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, OpenClaw).
457
458`--agent <EDITOR>` instead writes per-repository rules into the current repository, \
459in the file that editor's agent reads: cursor (`.cursor/rules/dev-prune.mdc`), \
460windsurf (`.windsurf/rules/dev-prune.md`), antigravity (`.agent/rules/dev-prune.md`), \
461cline (`.clinerules/dev-prune.md`), copilot (`.github/copilot-instructions.md`, as a \
462marked block) and agents-md (`AGENTS.md`, as a marked block — the cross-tool \
463convention Codex, Jules, Amp, OpenCode and others read). The two shared files are \
464edited inside dev-prune's markers only; every byte outside them is left as found. \
465Claude Code needs no per-repository file — its skill installs globally.";
466
467pub const SKILL_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
468EXAMPLES:
469  devp skill                      Export SKILL.md, print onboarding prompts
470  devp skill --agent cursor       Write .cursor/rules/dev-prune.mdc here
471  devp skill --agent agents-md    Upsert the marked block in AGENTS.md";
472
473pub const SETUP_LONG: &str = "\
474Install whatever integration is missing and leave the rest alone: the `devp` alias, \
475the managed binary directory on your PATH (a user PATH entry on Windows, \
476`~/.local/bin` symlinks elsewhere — what keeps `devp` working after the venv or npx \
477cache it came from disappears), the exported SKILL.md and its agent-directory \
478install, the file-manager icon registration, the global Git hooks, and the OS \
479scheduler. Safe to run repeatedly: it is the same pass the install scripts run, the \
480same one `devp init` runs, and the same one that runs by itself on the first command \
481after an upgrade.
482
483It skips rather than forces: Git hooks when `git` is missing or another tool holds \
484`core.hooksPath` (take the slot with `devp hook install --chain`), the alias when \
485the running process is `devp` itself on Windows, and anything switched off by \
486`auto_setup`, `auto_hooks`, `auto_daemon` or `DEV_PRUNE_NO_AUTO_SETUP=1`.
487
488When a VS Code-family editor is on your PATH (VS Code, VSCodium, Cursor, Windsurf, \
489Positron, Kiro, or an Insiders build) and the dev-prune extension is not installed, \
490one run also asks — once ever, only at a terminal — whether to install it into each \
491editor found. Each editor installs from its own registry; when a fork's registry does \
492not carry the extension, the `.vsix` from the latest GitHub release is installed \
493instead. Decline and it never asks again; install it yourself later with \
494`code --install-extension VKrishna04.dev-prune`.";
495
496pub const SETUP_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
497EXAMPLES:
498  devp setup                      Install what is missing, report what was skipped
499  devp setup --status             Report only; change nothing
500  DEV_PRUNE_NO_AUTO_SETUP=1 devp init ~/Code
501                                  Register repositories, install nothing";
502
503pub const DOCTOR_LONG: &str = "\
504One read-only pass that answers \"why is this not doing what I expect\". Without a \
505path it checks the installation: binary and twin, PATH, registry health, every \
506stored setting revalidated, SKILL.md, icons, hooks, scheduler, the package-manager \
507binaries your repositories actually need, and the release-check state. With a path \
508it checks that repository and ends by naming the single reason a prune would or \
509would not touch it.
510
511`--fix` is diagnosis first, then treatment — and it mends installed-but-broken only: \
512a stale or missing `devp` twin, a missing SKILL.md export, hooks or a scheduler \
513whose recorded binary moved, a drifted hook chain, and registry entries whose \
514repository is gone. Each repair is the corresponding `devp setup` pass re-run, so a \
515repair can never do more than setup itself would. It never performs a first-time \
516install, and never touches an unreadable registry — a parse failure is for you to \
517look at, not for a tool to guess at.
518
519EXIT CODES: 0 when everything works, warnings included — a missing scheduler should \
520not fail a script. 1 only for genuine breakage: an unreadable registry, an \
521out-of-range setting, a dead registered path, a directory that is not a Git \
522repository. `--fix` exits 1 when any repair failed or was out of reach.";
523
524pub const DOCTOR_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
525EXAMPLES:
526  devp doctor                     Check the installation
527  devp doctor .                   Why would a prune touch (or skip) this repository?
528  devp doctor ~/Code/api
529  devp doctor --fix               Repair what the installation check finds broken";
530
531pub const UNINSTALL_LONG: &str = "\
532Remove dev-prune from the machine: the OS scheduler, the global Git hooks (only if \
533`core.hooksPath` still points at dev-prune), the file-type icons, the installed \
534agent skill, the PATH entry (or `~/.local/bin` symlinks), and the binaries — the \
535managed pair, the copy you invoked, and, with your confirmation, every other copy \
536found on PATH or in the well-known install directories (`~/.cargo/bin`, \
537`~/.local/bin`, npm's global directory, pip's Scripts directories). A copy owned by \
538a package manager is listed with its manager, and after removal the manager's own \
539uninstall command is printed so its records can be cleared too.
540
541On Windows, where a running executable cannot delete itself, a detached helper \
542removes the last files a few seconds after the command exits — no reboot, no closed \
543terminal.
544
545Without `--deep` the configuration survives, so a reinstall picks up where you left \
546off. With `--deep` the global config folder and every registered repository's \
547`.devprune.json` go too; that asks for confirmation, and refuses outright with no \
548terminal to ask on unless `-y` is passed. Exits 1 if anything could not be removed, \
549naming each leftover.";
550
551pub const UNINSTALL_EXAMPLES: &str = "\
552EXAMPLES:
553  devp uninstall                  Remove the program; keep config for a reinstall
554  devp uninstall --deep           Also wipe config and per-repo .devprune.json (asks)
555  devp uninstall --deep -y        Non-interactive; also confirms the stray-copy sweep";