improve defaults docs

cmd/.root_test/.txt

@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ Available Commands:
 Flags:
   -c, --config string                        path to dep-tree's config file (default .dep-tree.yml)
       --exclude stringArray                  Files that match this glob pattern will be ignored. You can provide an arbitrary number of --exclude flags
-      --follow-re-exports                    whether to follow re-exports or not while resolving imports between files (default true)
+      --follow-re-exports                    follow re-exports while resolving imports between files
   -h, --help                                 help for dep-tree
-      --js-follow-ts-config-paths            whether to follow the tsconfig.json paths while resolving imports or not (default false)
-      --js-follow-workspaces                 whether to take the workspaces attribute in the root package.json into account or not (default false)
-      --python-exclude-conditional-imports   exclude conditional imports while calculating file dependencies, like imports wrapped inside if statements (default false)
+      --js-follow-ts-config-paths            follow the tsconfig.json paths while resolving imports (default true)
+      --js-follow-workspaces                 take the workspaces attribute in the root package.json into account for resolving paths (default true)
+      --python-exclude-conditional-imports   exclude conditional imports while calculating file dependencies, like imports wrapped inside if statements
   -v, --version                              version for dep-tree
 
 Use "dep-tree [command] --help" for more information about a command.

cmd/.root_test/help.txt

@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ Available Commands:
 Flags:
   -c, --config string                        path to dep-tree's config file (default .dep-tree.yml)
       --exclude stringArray                  Files that match this glob pattern will be ignored. You can provide an arbitrary number of --exclude flags
-      --follow-re-exports                    whether to follow re-exports or not while resolving imports between files (default true)
+      --follow-re-exports                    follow re-exports while resolving imports between files
   -h, --help                                 help for dep-tree
-      --js-follow-ts-config-paths            whether to follow the tsconfig.json paths while resolving imports or not (default false)
-      --js-follow-workspaces                 whether to take the workspaces attribute in the root package.json into account or not (default false)
-      --python-exclude-conditional-imports   exclude conditional imports while calculating file dependencies, like imports wrapped inside if statements (default false)
+      --js-follow-ts-config-paths            follow the tsconfig.json paths while resolving imports (default true)
+      --js-follow-workspaces                 take the workspaces attribute in the root package.json into account for resolving paths (default true)
+      --python-exclude-conditional-imports   exclude conditional imports while calculating file dependencies, like imports wrapped inside if statements
   -v, --version                              version for dep-tree
 
 Use "dep-tree [command] --help" for more information about a command.

cmd/root.go

@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ func NewRoot(args []string) *cobra.Command {
 
 	root.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&configPath, "config", "c", "", "path to dep-tree's config file (default .dep-tree.yml)")
 	// TODO: call this '--unwrap-exports'
-	root.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&followReExports, "follow-re-exports", true, "whether to follow re-exports or not while resolving imports between files")
+	root.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&followReExports, "follow-re-exports", false, "follow re-exports while resolving imports between files")
 	// TODO: call this '--js-tsconfig-paths'
-	root.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&jsFollowTsConfigPaths, "js-follow-ts-config-paths", false, "whether to follow the tsconfig.json paths while resolving imports or not (default false)")
+	root.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&jsFollowTsConfigPaths, "js-follow-ts-config-paths", true, "follow the tsconfig.json paths while resolving imports")
 	// TODO: call this '--js-workspaces'
-	root.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&jsFollowWorkspaces, "js-follow-workspaces", false, "whether to take the workspaces attribute in the root package.json into account or not (default false)")
-	root.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&pythonExcludeConditionalImports, "python-exclude-conditional-imports", false, "exclude conditional imports while calculating file dependencies, like imports wrapped inside if statements (default false)")
+	root.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&jsFollowWorkspaces, "js-follow-workspaces", true, "take the workspaces attribute in the root package.json into account for resolving paths")
+	root.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&pythonExcludeConditionalImports, "python-exclude-conditional-imports", false, "exclude conditional imports while calculating file dependencies, like imports wrapped inside if statements")
 	root.PersistentFlags().StringArrayVar(&exclude, "exclude", nil, "Files that match this glob pattern will be ignored. You can provide an arbitrary number of --exclude flags")
 
 	switch {

internal/config/sample-config.yml

@@ -80,8 +80,13 @@ check:
 
 # JavaScript and TypeScript specific settings.
 js:
+  # Whether to take package.json workspaces into account while resolving paths
+  # or not. You might want to disable if you only want to analyze one workspace
+  # in a monorepo.
+  followWorkspaces: true
   # Whether to follow tsconfig.json paths or not. You will typically want to
-  # enable this, but for some monorepo setups, it might be better to leave this off.
+  # enable this, but for some monorepo setups, it might be better to leave this off
+  # if you want to analyze only one package.
   followTsConfigPaths: true
 
 # Python specific settings.