Option to only get citations of packages in Project.toml and not in Manifest.toml

[Datseris]

I just used get_tool_citation() which gave me citation for 50 more names that I've ever seen in my life. But that's not really how citing works; you cite things you used directly and you have seen directly. If e.g., you cite a scientific paper from the 80s, you don't also cite all the papers that paper cites.

An option of only collecting the packages explicitly in the Project.toml file would resolve this.

[Datseris]

E.g., even though I do not use Measurements.jl in my work, aparrently some package has some deep dependency on Measurements.jl and its included in my "citation clipboard".

[SebastianM-C]

You can use only_direct=true in this case (see https://sebastianm-c.github.io/PkgCite.jl/stable/#PkgCite.get_citations). Does that solve the issue?

[Datseris]

Oh, sorry I have not realized there is an online hosted docs, I was reading the README. Yes this is a good solution, but would be also nice to have in the get_tool_citation() which copies this convenient string into clipboard.

[Datseris]

Oh that's already possible. Thanks!

[Datseris]

(p.s.: I think only_direct = true should be the default argument. It doesn't seem natural to reference any package in the Manifest)

[SebastianM-C]

There was a discussion about this on slack and there were people arguing for both sides, so that's why I left it like this.

The only_direct option should also work with get_tool_citation, but I think there is an omission in the docs. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.