Mutually exclusive flags are not suggested by shell completion

[louisroyer]

My urfave/cli version is

v3.4.1

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Dependency Management

• My project is using go modules.

Describe the bug

Mutually exclusive flags are not suggested by shell completion.

To reproduce

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/urfave/cli/v3"
)

func main() {
	app := &cli.Command{
		Name:                  "mutually-exclusive-flags",
		EnableShellCompletion: true,
		Commands: []*cli.Command{
			{
				Name: "cmd1",
				Flags: []cli.Flag{
					&cli.BoolFlag{
						Name: "b0",
					},
				},
				Action: func(ctx context.Context, cmd *cli.Command) error {
					fmt.Println("Command 1:", cmd.Bool("b0"))
					return nil
				},
			},
			{
				Name: "cmd2",
				MutuallyExclusiveFlags: []cli.MutuallyExclusiveFlags{{
					Flags: [][]cli.Flag{
						{
							&cli.BoolFlag{
								Name: "b1",
							},
						},
						{
							&cli.BoolFlag{
								Name: "b2",
							},
						},
					},
				}},
				Action: func(ctx context.Context, cmd *cli.Command) error {
					fmt.Println("Command 2:", cmd.Bool("b1"), cmd.Bool("b2"))
					return nil
				},
			},
		},
	}
	if err := app.Run(context.TODO(), os.Args); err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}
}

Test it using the following:

go run . cmd1 - --generate-shell-completion
go run . cmd2 - --generate-shell-completion
go run . cmd2 --b1 - --generate-shell-completion
go run . cmd2 --b2 - --generate-shell-completion

Observed behavior

$ go run . cmd1 - --generate-shell-completion
--b0
--help
$ go run . cmd2 - --generate-shell-completion
--help
$ go run . cmd2 --b1 - --generate-shell-completion
--help
$ go run . cmd2 --b2 - --generate-shell-completion
--help

Mutually exclusive flags are ignored by the shell completion suggestions.

Expected behavior

$ go run . cmd1 - --generate-shell-completion
--b0
--help
$ go run . cmd2 - --generate-shell-completion
--help
--b1
--b2
$ go run . cmd2 --b1 - --generate-shell-completion
--help
$ go run . cmd2 --b2 - --generate-shell-completion
--help

The second command should suggest --b1 and --b2 flags. The first, third and fourth commands results are already correct.

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Run go version and paste its output here

# paste `go version` output in here
go version go1.25.1 linux/amd64     

Run go env and paste its output here

# paste `go env` output in here
AR='ar'                                  
CC='gcc'                                                                                                                                
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'     
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''     
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'                            
CGO_ENABLED='1'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'                                                                                                                    
CXX='g++'     
GCCGO='gccgo'       
GO111MODULE=''
GOAMD64='v1'                         
GOARCH='amd64'                                            
GOAUTH='netrc'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/home/louis/.cache/go-build'
GOCACHEPROG=''
GODEBUG=''
GOENV='/home/louis/.config/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFIPS140='off'
GOFLAGS=''
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build1463017817=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches'
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='linux'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMOD='/home/louis/Téléchargements/mutuallyexclusiveflags/go.mod'
GOMODCACHE='/home/louis/.local/share/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='linux'
GOPATH='/home/louis/.local/share/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/home/louis/.local/share/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/[email protected]'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/home/louis/.config/go/telemetry'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/home/louis/.local/share/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/[email protected]/pkg/tool/linux_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.25.1'
GOWORK=''
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'

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@louisroyer can you review the PR ?