John Schnake

I'm so sorry its taken so long to respond to this PR. We are actively trying to tackle the backlog.

Would need fixed up to use a StringWriter instead of the bytes.Buffer. Untagged the issue as stale and mentioned it with maintainers to see if others want to see this...

This has an approval and green tests; is it waiting for anything else? I know this PR is connected to a lot of issues and if everyones happy I'm just...

IMO this would be unlikely to move forward but I'm not sure how others feel. Standards are good and I'd rather stick to them if the community seems generally receptive....

Seems like a pretty straightforward, reasonable request to me. I'm currently focused on backlog cleanup but I think if you put up the PR I could find time to review...

Related to numerous other flag issues including #1238. After using cobra/pflag for so long and looking at the backlog these are one of the most common places for improvement.

I haven't used this particular feature before but its not immediately obvious to me why its coded as it is instead of utilizing a template that can be overridden like...

Thanks for the issue. I googled a bit and found an 'open CLI' page (not necessarily the standard though, I'm unfamiliar with them) but it says: ``` A flag and...

This is probably just an issue in/with spf13/pflag but its not uncommon for the issues to be reported here. Just FYI we may move it to that repo.

https://github.com/spf13/pflag#command-line-flag-syntax even shows the `-f=foo' and '-f foo` options, so it does seem to be a bug, not a difference in intent or design.