Minor update instructions: Add "-m" option to "composer outdated ..."

[knbknb]

On this page What are minor updates it explicitly says

"For example, upgrading from TYPO3 version 11.5.2 to 11.5.3 is a minor upgrade."

And the instructions say in Paragraph Check if updates are available

Alternatively, running composer outdated "typo3/*" will present a list of any packages that have updates.

But this command is incorrect, it should be

Alternatively, running composer outdated -m "typo3/*" will present a list of any packages that have minor version updates.

composer outdated --minor-only "typo3/*" could also be used.

Otherwise (without -m) the listing will display major version updates typo3/cms-indexed-search v10.4.31 v12.1.3
only with -m switch it will show the actual minor version updates typo3/cms-indexed-search v10.4.31 v10.4.34

[DavidBruchmann]

@knbknb thanks for reporting this issue!
Both commands display almost the same information, it's slightly different though, below the essential parts of the output:

*composer outdated "typo3/"**

*composer outdated -m "typo3/"**

It might be reasonable to change the documentation, I'm not 100% sure about it.
@linawolf , @brotkrueml what's your opinion?

[knbknb]

They display vastly different output on my machine, which is contains a 10.4.

Without -m a lot of 12.x updates are displayed, almost as if TYPO3 urges me to upgrade. Only with -m I can see most recent minor version 10.4 updates. I don't know why this is, maybe its my global composer configuration, if there is such a thing (a $COMPOSER_HOME/.config does not exist on my machine). I have also noticed this behavior with outher PHP projects, not just TYPO3. -m works better.

Maybe it's dependent on the composer version. Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 still have composer 1 in their distro repositories, and you'll get composer2 only if you install via the composer.phar file mechanism.

Do what you want, I don't care (= I don't want to reopen this), personally I will prefer to use the -m composer option.

[DavidBruchmann]

You're right, you can see my screenshots above too, they confirm your words.
Your proposed change is in the documentation and should be online already visible. Thanks for reporting, I think it's very useful!