Setting credentials fails when password starts with a hyphen

• I am on the latest Poetry version.

• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name: NixOS 21.05

• Poetry version: 1.1.11

Issue

When setting repository credentials with poetry config http-basic.custom-repo gitlab-ci-token ${GITLAB_JOB_TOKEN} the command will fail any time the GITLAB_JOB_TOKEN begins with a hyphen. The command line parser tries to treat the password as an option.

The current workaround is to use double hyphen e.g. poetry config http-basic.custom-repo -- gitlab-ci-token ${GITLAB_JOB_TOKEN}

This should either be fixed in the option parser, or the workaround documented in the manual.

[neersighted]

Agreed, this is standard behavior of CLI applications, and there is no need for a workaround as the proper solution (-- to terminate options parsing in the Unix tradition) is available. I’m leaving this open as this seems like an excellent FAQ candidate.

[dimbleby]

this is just regular behaviour for command line programs. eg try to grep for a string that begins with a hyphen: it’ll try to interpret it as an option.

See also #4853.

Nothing to do here.