(Documentation) Not clear which groups `uv export` exports

[anentropic]

Summary

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/cli/#uv-export

Export the project's lockfile to an alternate format.

At present, both requirements.txt and pylock.toml (PEP 751) formats are supported.

The project is re-locked before exporting unless the --locked or --frozen flag is provided.

uv will search for a project in the current directory or any parent directory. If a project cannot be found, uv will exit with an error.

If operating in a workspace, the root will be exported by default; however, a specific member can be selected using the --package option.

Unclear if this exports just the default group, all groups, default+optional groups but not dev groups, or what.

There are options for --all-extras, --extra, --group, --no-default-groups, --no-dev, --no-extra, --no-group, --only-dev, --only-group ... but none of them clarify explicitly what the default behaviour is.

Example

It just needs a short sentence to say what the default behaviour is.

[anentropic]

By running it to see... looks like it exports everything by default

At least, dev group deps were included

[zanieb]

See https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/dependencies/#default-groups

[zanieb]

It's has the same semantics as uv run and uv sync, we use the default groups. I'm not sure it's worth calling that out explicitly since all of our commands are operating that way?

[anentropic]

It'd be great to have this referenced in the command docs

I looked carefully through the command docs and it did not occur to me, nor was there any hint mentioned, that the behaviour is configured that way. I doubt I would ever have looked under "Concepts"

I just wanted to lookup the behaviour of the command, not read the whole manual.