[jacalata]

Global options placed before the subcommand were silently dropped, so tabcmd -s <url> --token-name n --token-value v login ran with no server or credentials, and tabcmd --language de login ignored the language. Only options placed after the subcommand worked.

The root parser and every subcommand parser shared one set of global options with defaults. When a subcommand parser ran, its defaults overwrote the values already parsed before the subcommand. The subcommand parsers now use a copy of the global options with defaults suppressed; the root parser keeps the real defaults, so every option still has a default value. Options given after the subcommand still win over ones given before it.

Tests build the real parser and check every global option gives the same result before and after the subcommand, across several commands and help. Help output is unchanged.

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Coverage Report

File	Stmts	Miss	Cover	Missing
tabcmd
__main__.py	12	12	12	0%
_version.py	11	11	11	0%
tabcmd.py	15	15	15	0%
version.py	10	6	6	40%
tabcmd/commands
commands.py	10	10	10	0%
constants.py	77	15	15	81%
server.py	135	18	18	87%
tabcmd/commands/auth
session.py	418	46	46	89%
tabcmd/commands/datasources_and_workbooks
datasources_and_workbooks_command.py	170	18	18	89%
datasources_workbooks_views_url_parser.py	142	5	5	96%
delete_command.py	70	23	23	67%
export_command.py	126	21	21	83%
get_url_command.py	127	47	47	63%
publish_command.py	134	16	16	88%
runschedule_command.py	21	7	7	67%
tabcmd/commands/extracts
create_extracts_command.py	42	8	8	81%
decrypt_extracts_command.py	27	2	2	93%
delete_extracts_command.py	37	6	6	84%
encrypt_extracts_command.py	27	2	2	93%
extracts.py	20	2	2	90%
reencrypt_extracts_command.py	27	2	2	93%
refresh_extracts_command.py	48	10	10	79%
tabcmd/commands/group
create_group_command.py	29	5	5	83%
delete_group_command.py	27	2	2	93%
tabcmd/commands/project
create_project_command.py	46	8	8	83%
delete_project_command.py	35	4	4	89%
publish_samples_command.py	30	4	4	87%
tabcmd/commands/site
create_site_command.py	34	5	5	85%
delete_site_command.py	27	2	2	93%
edit_site_command.py	66	18	18	73%
list_command.py	77	12	12	84%
list_sites_command.py	29	2	2	93%
tabcmd/commands/user
add_users_command.py	29	5	5	83%
create_site_users.py	115	14	14	88%
create_users_command.py	59	9	9	85%
delete_site_users_command.py	43	5	5	88%
user_data.py	222	31	31	86%
tabcmd/execution
_version.py	2	2	2	0%
global_options.py	155	4	4	97%
localize.py	67	11	11	84%
logger_config.py	72	6	6	92%
tabcmd_controller.py	40	7	7	82%
TOTAL	3068	458	85%

[Copilot]

🟡 Changes recommended

Mutually exclusive global options bypass conflict validation when split across the subcommand, allowing an explicitly supplied proxy to be silently overridden and similar credential and certificate conflicts to go undetected.

1 open issue

• Validate conflicting global options across the full invocation · New

What changed in this PR

This PR fixes global options being lost when supplied before a subcommand, while preserving root-level defaults and allowing later values to take precedence.

Changes:

• Gives subcommands and help separate global options with defaults suppressed.
• Adds parser regression tests for option placement, value conversion, defaults, and precedence.

File	Description
tests/​parsers/​test_global_options_position.py	Tests global option handling across multiple commands and help.
tabcmd/​execution/​parent_parser.py	Prevents subcommand defaults from overwriting previously parsed global options.

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[Copilot]

🟢 Approval recommended

There are no active review issues for the CLI option-precedence and proxy-validation changes.

No open issues 🎉

1 resolved since last review

• Validate conflicting global options across the full invocation

_{Review effort: Balanced}