From dc6e9ece6f18abe6bae180e13ea58beea916af76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Bates <mark@markbates.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 20:25:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added a flag to disable flags

---
 command.go      | 10 ++++++++++
 command_test.go | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/command.go b/command.go
index b92c95c..e1517aa 100644
--- a/command.go
+++ b/command.go
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ type Command struct {
 	DisableSuggestions bool
 	// If displaying suggestions, allows to set the minimum levenshtein distance to display, must be > 0
 	SuggestionsMinimumDistance int
+
+	// Disable the flag parsing. If this is true all flags will be passed to the command as arguments.
+	DisableFlagParsing bool
 }
 
 // os.Args[1:] by default, if desired, can be overridden
@@ -536,7 +539,11 @@ func (c *Command) execute(a []string) (err error) {
 	}
 
 	c.preRun()
+
 	argWoFlags := c.Flags().Args()
+	if c.DisableFlagParsing {
+		argWoFlags = a
+	}
 
 	for p := c; p != nil; p = p.Parent() {
 		if p.PersistentPreRunE != nil {
@@ -1167,6 +1174,9 @@ func (c *Command) persistentFlag(name string) (flag *flag.Flag) {
 
 // ParseFlags parses persistent flag tree & local flags
 func (c *Command) ParseFlags(args []string) (err error) {
+	if c.DisableFlagParsing {
+		return nil
+	}
 	c.mergePersistentFlags()
 	err = c.Flags().Parse(args)
 	return
diff --git a/command_test.go b/command_test.go
index 43ed7a3..291947f 100644
--- a/command_test.go
+++ b/command_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package cobra
 
 import (
+	"os"
 	"reflect"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -112,3 +113,23 @@ func TestStripFlags(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func Test_DisableFlagParsing(t *testing.T) {
+	as := []string{"-v", "-race", "-file", "foo.go"}
+	targs := []string{}
+	cmdPrint := &Command{
+		DisableFlagParsing: true,
+		Run: func(cmd *Command, args []string) {
+			targs = args
+		},
+	}
+	osargs := []string{"cmd"}
+	os.Args = append(osargs, as...)
+	err := cmdPrint.Execute()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(as, targs) {
+		t.Errorf("expected: %v, got: %v", as, targs)
+	}
+}