Add and implement new --onlydeps
option
#2773
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With the new
--onlydeps
CLI option, we can evaluate all dependencies except the requested targets itself. This comes in handy to prepare some offline work. It's also useful when a target itself is able to watch an handle a change of it's inputs (like a Spring Boot or Vaadin app) but Mill is still needed to watch and re-build all the other dependencies.Example: Just re-prepare the dependencies but don't restart the server
The name
--onlydeps
is borrowed fromemerge
the CLI of the Gentoo package manager Portage.Depends on
mill.api.MillException
to transport the error condition #2789Fix #2748