--hidden flag is not idempotent

[laur89]

Creating an alias for fd providing the --hidden flag has been recommended here for numerous times.

I did that, but now am seeing problems when another shell abstraction (eg fzf's FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND env var) is providing --hidden as well, causing fd command to end up with multiple --hidden flags, resulting in

error: The argument '--hidden' was provided more than once, but cannot be used multiple times

error. Now, said command could bypass alias by prefixing fd with command (at least in bash), but generally such flags are allowed to be provided many times.

Is there a reason for current behavior?

Running ver 7.0.0

[sharkdp]

Thank you for the feedback!

Is there a reason for current behavior?

No. We should change it. This should be easy to implement. We need to use claps overrides_with option:

arg("hidden").long("hidden").short("H").overrides_with("hidden")

This should probably also be done for some other similar arguments.

[rootbid]

I am hoping this resolves the reported issue.
@sharkdp, you also mentioned overriding some other similar arguments. Can you name those arguments for me to implement?

[sharkdp]

@rootbid Thank you for looking into this. Similar arguments would essentially be all flags (the ones which do not take values):

• --no-ignore
• --no-ignore-vcs
• --case-sensitive
• --ignore-case
• --glob
• --regex
• --fixed-strings
• --absolute-path
• --follow
• --full-path
• --print0
• --show-errors

Care must be taken that --ignore-case still overwrites with --case-sensitive and similar restrictions.

[sharkdp]

Released in fd 7.5.0