From 2e39a346b533322154fd8847a9022b142d7fc177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio Cavallo <a.cavallo@cavallinux.eu>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:44:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] update docs

---
 pyproject.toml     | 2 +-
 support/release.py | 7 +++----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c9b4d4a..6ae3afa 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 name = "mono2repo"
 version = "0.1.0"
 description = "create a standalone repo from a monorepo subdir."
-readme = "README.md"
+readme = "README.rst"
 license = { text = "MIT" }
 requires-python = ">= 3.9"
 
diff --git a/support/release.py b/support/release.py
index f77e640..cdbc96c 100755
--- a/support/release.py
+++ b/support/release.py
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ def parse_args(args=None):
 
     # 
     if options.github_dump is None:
+        if not os.getenv("GITHUB_DUMP"):
+            parser.error("GITHUB_DUMP environment variable empty or not defined")
         options.github_dump = json.loads(os.getenv("GITHUB_DUMP"))
     elif options.github_dump == "local":
         options.github_dump = common.github_dump_from_local()
@@ -74,10 +76,7 @@ def parse_args(args=None):
 
 
 def main(args):
-    github_dump = args.github_dump
-    if not github_dump:
-        args.error("missing GITHUB_DUMP variable")
-    gdata = common.github_dump_validate(github_dump)
+    gdata = common.github_dump_validate(args.github_dump)
 
     with common.savefiles() as save:
         # update pyproject.toml