Setting up the TYPO3 ruleset to extension failed

[vaxul]

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Operating System

WSL Ubuntu-20.04

Composer version

2.3.10

PHP version

8.0.21

TYPO3 Coding Standards Package version

Main branch

Additional version information

The latest Composer and PHP 8.0 version is installed.

Current Behavior

If I try to run composer exec typo3-coding-standards extension, I get the following errors:

A .editorconfig file already exists in your main folder, but the -f option was not set. Nothing copied.
A .php-cs-fixer.dist.php file already exists in your main folder, but the -f option was not set. Nothing copied.

If I try the -f option, I get the error:

The "-f" option does not exist.

Workaround

If I delete the .editorconfig and .php-cs-fixer.php/.php-cs-fixer.dist.php files, I can run the script, but only a .php-cs-fixer.dist.php is created. The file itself looks a expected (without the file header config).

Expected Behavior

The switch of the ruleset should work as documented.

Steps To Reproduce

1. I cloned the project within the Windows WSL machine, inside the Linux
2. run composer install
3. and try composer exec typo3-coding-standards extension

Anything else?

If I installed it with composer req --dev typo3/coding-standards, I get no errors, since the files are missing initially.

So maybe the only issue is, that the documented -f option is missing?

[gilbertsoft]

Hey @vaxul , thanks for your report. The problem is a wrong usage, try composer exec -- typo3-coding-standards extension -f which should work properly. If you omit the -- Composer uses the -f option for the exec command which of course does not have this option and is not what you want. It is mentioned on the last line of your screenshot above by the way and normal behavior for Symfony console apps.