oclif rejects empty string given for required argument

[oclif]

oclif rejects empty string given for required argument

[derekhe]

Yes, this is the issue. I'm implementing npm-deprecate like command, the requirement is:

To un-deprecate a package, specify an empty string ("") for the message argument. Note that you must use double quotes with no space between them to format an empty string.

I can't do this in oclif if I mark the message as required

[git2gus]

This issue has been linked to a new work item: W-15161625

[rrthomas]

Many thanks for fixing this issue! I used argparse for the project I was working on 3 years ago, as oclif had this problem, and yargs had another similar edge case which their devs marked WONTFIX (single - passed as positional arg disappeared), so it's good to know that in future I can just use oclif again!