Make --format group,repo the default

[wmertens]

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IMHO it's much more user friendly to show repo links and group by update type by default.

[raineorshine]

Thank you for the suggestion. I've thought about making --format group the default as I tend to prefer it in all cases.

--format repo reads all the dependencies' package files from disk which has some performance overhead, so it needs to remain opt-in.

[CreativeTechGuy]

reads all the dependencies' package files from disk which has some performance overhead

It's not doing a directory traversal, it's just loading specific package.json files at known paths when needed. Worst case it'll check 3 paths for every package which got updated and load at most one JSON file.

Given that this package does a lot of fetching over the internet, reading some files off of disk seems pretty fast in comparison I'm not sure it's noticeable.

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TLDR: I think it's a good default. :)

[raineorshine]

Yeah, you're probably right. And zero overhead if we can parallelize it.

I'm still leaning towards opt-in --format repo for aesthetic reasons. (I wish we could do <a href="">...</a> in the terminal.)

--format group is definitely better than the current default though.