Support ‘cargo fmt -p PACKAGE1 -p PACKAGE2’ in a workspace with several packages

[andersk]

cargo fmt should support -p/--package, like most other cargo subcommands, so that one can run cargo fmt -p PACKAGE1 -p PACKAGE2 in a Cargo workspace with several packages.

[imp]

And may be cargo fmt --all to act on all the workspace members defined in the Cargo.toml

[Emilgardis]

This feature would be very useful to have as rustfmt is a must-have cargo plugin and not having support for workspaces is a major inconvenience.

[nrc]

I suspect this would be relatively easy to implement. The cargo fmt stuff is fairly self-contained (in https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt/blob/master/src/bin/cargo-fmt.rs) and IIUC, workspace support just comes down to specifying a different 'start file' for rustfmt.

If anyone wants to tackle this, I'd more than happy by answering questions or pointing towards parts of the system.

[Emilgardis]

I am willing to implement this.

[Emilgardis]

This has been fixed now 🎉

[pravic]

so that one can run cargo fmt -p PACKAGE1 -p PACKAGE2 in a Cargo workspace with several packages.

It is strange: $ cargo fmt -p package results

Invalid argument: package.
usage: cargo fmt [options]

Several combinations revealed the only accepting form: cargo fmt -ppackage o_O

P.S. version 0.3.8-nightly (346238f 2018-02-04)