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Idea: Allow root options to be passed to subcommands

See original GitHub issue

For user convenience, it might make sense to allow passing global options as if they were sub-command options. For example, instead of requiring the user to write

command --root-option subcommand --sub-option

clikt could allow to write

command subcommand --root-option --sub-option

This would work unless there is an option name clash between the global command and the sub-command, in which case the sub-command-specific option should take precedence.

AFAIK there’s currently no elegant way to achieve this in clikt, so maybe it makes sense to implement this as a core feature toggle on the context, like subcommandsInheritGlobalOptions or allowGlobalOptionsForSubcommands.

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Created 3 years ago
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sschuberthcommented, Feb 25, 2021

Feel free to look at our project for an example:

https://github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort/blob/72db6534a875d82b425e4211bde1eeaedb775e8f/cli/build.gradle.kts#L32-L40

https://github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort/blob/72db6534a875d82b425e4211bde1eeaedb775e8f/cli/src/main/kotlin/OrtMain.kt#L196-L203

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ajaltcommented, Oct 6, 2021

Ok, I think I’ll hold off on implementing this for now. Thanks for taking the time to discuss!

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