Argument order

[g105b]

Should the argument order matter?

Currently, looking at PHP.Gt/Sync, this command fails:

sync --pattern * --symlink path/to/source path/to/dest

but this command succeeds:

sync path/to/source path/to/dest --pattern * --symlink

Shouldn't they both be synonymous?

[g105b]

The issue is that ArgumentParser is syntax-only and greedily treats any option followed by a non-dashed token as "option with value".

• --pattern * becomes pattern='*'
• --symlink path/to/source becomes symlink='path/to/source'

This happens before the command metadata is consulted, so the parser doesn't know that --symlink is a flag and shouldn't consume a value.

To fix this properly, the parser needs to become command-aware, so it knows which options take values before consuming the next token.