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fix --help not working if required fields present #128

Closed skimi closed 2 years ago

skimi commented 2 years ago

Summary

--help not working if an option is required: true.

fixes #101

Changes

selectBestState that runs the required field checks skips it if it's the help command
Display the --help even if --help --foo has other options following

Further thoughts

I think Unix commands usually display the help by default when you input an unknown option. That seems like a good practice to adopt