Unable to use '--bumpFiles' command line arg the same way as the '.versionrc' file

[jan-mrm]

Describe the bug
It seems so that I'm not able to hand the same structure into the command line arg --bumpFiles as by using the .versionrc file.

Current behavior
running commit-and-tag-version --bumpFiles "[{\"filename\":\"custom-bump-file.md\",\"updater\":\"custom-updater.js\"}]"

succeeds but without updating the custom-bump-file.md and with instead saying:

Unable to obtain updater for: "[{\"filename\":\"custom-bump-file.md\",\"updater\":\"custom-updater.js\"}]"
 - Error: Unsupported file ([{"filename":"custom-bump-file.md","updater":"custom-updater.js"}]) provided for bumping.

Expected behavior
I would like the command line arg to be able to work with the same input as the .versionrc file

Environment

• commit-and-tag-version version(s): 10.1.0
• Node/npm version: Node v18.7.0 / npm 8.15.0
• OS: macOS Monterey 12.5

Possible Solution

I'm guessing the command line arg is not parsed/interpreted as a json object?

Additional context
Why am I not just use the .versionrc file: I would like to call the commit-and-tag-version tool multiple times with different configuration for which additional files (besides the CHANGELOG.md) to update. For that I would like to just hand over the different configuration using the --bumpFiles command line arg.

[TimothyJones]

Thanks for the detailed report! You are correct that the way the config is parsed is different depending on how it is invoked.

I'd quite like to fix this - there's a little bit of context on #31, but basically what needs to happen is to generalise the configuration structure so that the source doesn't matter. It's a medium amount of effort, but something that would be a substantial improvement.

[jan-mrm]

hi @TimothyJones
since I'm working on a new setup and ended up at the same problem as here I wanted to ask if there are any updates about generalising the configuration? 🙂
To solve this issue back then I used something very ..., lets say not preferred 😅 (its called patch-package and I'm not proud of using it)