Flag pub publish --skip-validation to publish without resolution and validation (#3904)

Author: sigurdm

lib/src/command/lish.dart

@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ class LishCommand extends PubCommand {
   /// Whether the publish requires confirmation.
   bool get force => argResults['force'];
 
+  bool get skipValidation => argResults['skip-validation'];
+
   LishCommand() {
     argParser.addFlag(
       'dry-run',
@@ -79,6 +81,12 @@ class LishCommand extends PubCommand {
       negatable: false,
       help: 'Publish without confirmation if there are no errors.',
     );
+    argParser.addFlag(
+      'skip-validation',
+      negatable: false,
+      help:
+          'Publish without validation and resolution (this will ignore errors).',
+    );
     argParser.addOption(
       'server',
       help: 'The package server to which to upload this package.',
@@ -251,7 +259,13 @@ the \$PUB_HOSTED_URL environment variable.''',
           'pubspec.');
     }
 
-    await entrypoint.acquireDependencies(SolveType.get, analytics: analytics);
+    if (!skipValidation) {
+      await entrypoint.acquireDependencies(SolveType.get, analytics: analytics);
+    } else {
+      log.warning(
+        'Running with `skip-validation`. No client-side validation is done.',
+      );
+    }
 
     var files = entrypoint.root.listFiles();
     log.fine('Archiving and publishing ${entrypoint.root.name}.');
@@ -267,10 +281,12 @@ the \$PUB_HOSTED_URL environment variable.''',
         createTarGz(files, baseDir: entrypoint.rootDir).toBytes();
 
     // Validate the package.
-    var isValid = await _validate(
-      packageBytesFuture.then((bytes) => bytes.length),
-      files,
-    );
+    var isValid = skipValidation
+        ? true
+        : await _validate(
+            packageBytesFuture.then((bytes) => bytes.length),
+            files,
+          );
     if (!isValid) {
       overrideExitCode(exit_codes.DATA);
       return;

test/testdata/goldens/help_test/pub publish --help.txt

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Usage: pub publish [options]
 -h, --help               Print this usage information.
 -n, --dry-run            Validate but do not publish the package.
 -f, --force              Publish without confirmation if there are no errors.
+    --skip-validation    Publish without validation and resolution (this will ignore errors).
 -C, --directory=<dir>    Run this in the directory <dir>.
 
 Run "pub help" to see global options.