Conflict between global flags set by godog.BindCommandLineFlags and spf13/cobra

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👓 What did you see?

While testing my program which implemented a command with spf13/cobra, I received an error message that says "unable to redefine 'c' shorthand in "xxxxxxxxxx" flagset: it's already used for "xxxxxxxxxxxxx" flag".

The shorthand c in the global flags set by godog.BindCommandLineFlags was causing a collision with a shorthand c in my cobra command.

✅ What did you expect to see?

I expected the godog package to be compatible with my cobra command without any conflicts.

📦 Which tool/library version are you using?

v0.13.0

🔬 How could we reproduce it?

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1.Install both godog and cobra
2.Create a Cobra command with a shorthand 'c'
3.Use godog.BindCommandLineFlags to bind global flags
4.Run the test command
5.You should see the error unable to redefine 'c' shorthand in "xxxxxxxxx" flagset: it's already used for "xxxxxxxxx" flag

📚 Any additional context?

Given that this collision is possible, it suggests that there may be an issue with godog's global flag setting feature that needs to be addressed. I wonder if there's a measure we can take on the godog side, such as not assigning shorthands to the global flags set by godog.BindCommandLineFlags.

I look forward to your thoughts and response. Thank you.

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[vearutop]

Please use godog.BindFlags, probably we should tag godog.BindCommandLineFlags as deprecated and remove it in the future.

Also, could you explain the situation/use case in which you needed to call godog.BindCommandLineFlags?