Counter incorrectly renders value in help

[mattdowdell]

I have a verbose flag defined something like:

type Cmd struct {
  Verbose int `type:"counter"`
}

According to the tests, the help for this command should render as:

  --verbose

But it actually renders as:

  --verbose=INT

After much digging, I tracked the issue down to here. This is where the flag is actually rendered in help, as opposed to Flag.String which actually appears to be wholly unused when building help.

Would it be possible to make the help omit the value and avoid users thinking they should specify the value for counters?

For the record, I'm using:

• Kong: v0.8.0
• Go v1.20.5

[dropwhile]

I'm having the same issue.

struct partial:

Version    int    `name:"version" short:"V" type:"counter" help:"Print version and exit; specify twice to show license information."`

rendered:

-V, --version=INT    Print version and exit; specify twice to show license information.

• kong: v0.8.1
• Go: 1.21.4

[dropwhile]

PR opened with possible fix.

The struct partial:

Version    int    `name:"version" short:"V" type:"counter" help:"Print version and exit; specify twice to show license information."`

now shows:

-V, --version    Print version and exit; specify twice to show license information.