Do we expect an option value passed via the command line to be appended to the list of values specified in the

pants.toml

? 😕 I could be misunderstanding the docs.

Yes! That's by-design I believe

I expected the the html override what’s given in the

report

?

Yeah that one

yeah, this is called "implicit add" and it's because string escaping on the CLI is obnoxious

./pants test --use-coverage --coverage-py-report=html --coverage-py-report=json ::

gives me

Wrote xml coverage report to `dist/coverage_results`
Wrote html coverage report to `dist/coverage_results`
Wrote json coverage report to `dist/coverage_results`

yeah, that's expected

from the docs:

You can also leave off the

[]

to append elements. So we can rewrite the above to:

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./pants --scope-listopt=foo --scope-listopt=bar

I think what’s meant here is to append elements to any existing elements that may have been defined in lower-precedence sources ?

ah yeah, feel free to submit a docs improvement 🙂

options.md