Give -v to verbose, move --version to -V (closes #64)
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urfave/cli's built-in version flag claimed -v by default, colliding with
the -v verbose alias used on every subcommand; "mfer -v --version" failed
to parse with an internal-sounding parser error. Verbose is the more
common meaning of -v in tools that offer both, so verbose now keeps -v at
the root and on every subcommand, and the version flag takes the capital
-V (--version still works).

User-visible change: -v alone now prints help with verbose logging rather
than the version; use -V or --version for the version.

The --version flag and the version subcommand now share one printer, so
they emit identical output. Adds tests covering -v, --verbose, --version,
-v --version, and --verbose --version (exit code and output).

Model: opus-4-8
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2026-09-21 07:48:12 +00:00
parent 5683d0f4ff
commit 23dc6dd49d
3 changed files with 92 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ const (
testManifest = "/manifest.mf"
testFlagBase = "--base"
testFlagNoExtra = "--no-extra-files"
testFlagVersion = "--version"
)
var errSimulatedWrite = errors.New("simulated write failure")
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ func TestVersionCommand(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
opts := testOpts([]string{testApp, "version"}, fs)
opts := testOpts([]string{testApp, cmdVersion}, fs)
exitCode := runCLI(opts)
@@ -113,6 +114,69 @@ func TestVersionCommand(t *testing.T) {
assert.Contains(t, stdout, "abc123")
}
// TestVFlagCollision covers the -v/--verbose vs --version flag interaction
// (issue #64). Verbose owns -v; version answers to --version and -V. None of
// these invocations may produce a parser error, and the two ways of asking
// for the version must print the same thing.
func TestVFlagCollision(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// Invocations that must print the version and exit 0.
versionCases := map[string][]string{
"long version flag": {testApp, testFlagVersion},
"short version flag": {testApp, "-V"},
"verbose then version": {testApp, "-v", testFlagVersion},
"long verbose and version": {testApp, "--verbose", testFlagVersion},
}
for name, args := range versionCases {
t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
opts := testOpts(args, afero.NewMemMapFs())
exitCode := runCLI(opts)
assert.Equal(t, 0, exitCode, "stderr: %s", testStderr(t, opts))
assert.Contains(t, testStdout(t, opts), mfer.Version)
assert.NotContains(t, testStderr(t, opts), "two forms of the same flag")
})
}
// Invocations that must enable verbose and exit 0 without a parser error.
verboseCases := map[string][]string{
"short verbose flag": {testApp, "-v"},
"long verbose flag": {testApp, "--verbose"},
}
for name, args := range verboseCases {
t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
opts := testOpts(args, afero.NewMemMapFs())
exitCode := runCLI(opts)
assert.Equal(t, 0, exitCode, "stderr: %s", testStderr(t, opts))
assert.Contains(t, testStdout(t, opts), cmdGenerate,
"root should show help listing subcommands")
assert.Empty(t, testStderr(t, opts))
})
}
}
// TestVersionFlagAndCommandMatch asserts that "mfer --version" and
// "mfer version" produce identical output (issue #64).
func TestVersionFlagAndCommandMatch(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
flagOpts := testOpts([]string{testApp, testFlagVersion}, afero.NewMemMapFs())
require.Equal(t, 0, runCLI(flagOpts))
cmdOpts := testOpts([]string{testApp, cmdVersion}, afero.NewMemMapFs())
require.Equal(t, 0, runCLI(cmdOpts))
assert.Equal(t, testStdout(t, flagOpts), testStdout(t, cmdOpts))
}
func TestHelpCommand(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()