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Weird choice tbh. I'd make --force --force a separate option if possible.
You just really force it.
It's like with
-v
in various applications.-v
means "verbose", and-vv
means "really verbose", and-vvv
means "an ungodly amount of data printed to the terminal, so much that it might crash".But that's all part of the same argument. If it was
-f
or-ff
that'd make sense. Duplicate parameters are usually ignored in like all other programs I can think of.I agree. Specifying the same param twice like this feels like it should be idempotent. Sometimes a final cmdline string is built by multiple tools concatenating their outputs together; if each one adds
--force
without any way to know if it's already been added elsewhere, this could lead to undesirable behavior.Even
--forceforce
would be better.