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Fixes #1598.

A relationship property takes one flag or argument. Writing several in one value was accepted and enforced nothing:

flag "--a" conflicts="--b --c"
flag "--b"
flag "--c"

--b --c was read as a single selector that matches no flag, so --a --b and --a --c both parsed without error. Repeating the property (conflicts="--b" conflicts="--c") silently kept only the last one.

Both forms are now rejected when the spec loads:

conflicts takes one flag or argument per property, but "--b --c" has several; write them as a child node instead: conflicts "--a" "--b"
conflicts is given more than once; the second would replace the first, so write several as a child node instead: conflicts "--a" "--b"

The child-node form already worked and is unchanged:

flag "--a" {
  conflicts "--b" "--c"
}

Only a value containing a dashed word (a flag spelling) is refused. A bare selector names a positional, and a positional's name may contain a space (arg "[input file]"), so conflicts="input file" keeps working.

The same trap existed for overrides, requires, required_if, required_unless and required_unless_all, so the check covers all of them on flags, and the relevant ones on positionals.

Specs that currently load with a multi-target property value were not enforcing it, and now need rewriting to the child-node form. I chose rejection over splitting the value on spaces so the format keeps a single way to write a list.

docs/spec/reference/flag.md now documents the child-node form for several conflicts and the load-time errors.

Tests cover each property on flags and positionals, both error cases, the child-node form, and a positional name containing a space. cargo test --all --all-features and clippy pass.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Specification loading now rejects repeated relationship properties and property values containing multiple flag selectors, rather than treating them as a single selector. Positional argument names containing spaces remain supported.
  • Multiple relationship targets can be declared using child-node syntax, with one argument per target.
• Documentation
  • Updated the flag reference to explain supported syntax and loading errors for relationship properties, including conflicts, overrides, and requirement rules.

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Walkthrough

Relationship properties now reject repeated declarations and multiple whitespace-separated selectors in one property. Serialization uses child-node syntax when a selector does not fit in a property. The reference documentation describes child-node syntax for multiple conflicts.

Changes: Relationship selector validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse and validate relationship selectors lib/src/spec/helpers.rs, lib/src/spec/arg.rs, lib/src/spec/flag.rs, docs/spec/reference/flag.md	Shared helpers reject repeated properties and invalid multi-selector property values. Argument and flag parsing use these checks, and serialization uses child-node syntax for selectors that do not fit in a property. Tests cover invalid property forms and multiple conflicts targets in a child node. The reference documents these rules.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• jdx/usage#1598 — Rejects multi-target and repeated conflicts properties at spec-load time and documents child-node syntax for multiple conflicts.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5c5d7

The relationship-selector changes are consistent and ready to merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title accurately and concisely describes the main change: rejecting multiple targets in relationship properties.
Linked Issues check		Issue #1598 requires rejection or parsing of multi-target conflicts property values and documentation of the child-node form. The parser now rejects values such as "--b --c" during spec loading, r…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within the relationship-property problem in #1598. The added checks for overrides, requires, required_if, required_unless, and required_unless_all address the same silent mu…

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Explanation

Issue #1598 requires rejection or parsing of multi-target conflicts property values and documentation of the child-node form. The parser now rejects values such as "--b --c" during spec loading, rejects repeated relationship properties, and preserves the child-node form. The flag reference documents these rules. Tests cover flags, positionals, repeated properties, child nodes, and positional names with spaces.

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Explanation

The changes stay within the relationship-property problem in #1598. The added checks for overrides, requires, required_if, required_unless, and required_unless_all address the same silent multi-target and replacement behavior on the relevant declarations. Serialization changes, tests, and documentation support this behavior. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 11 functions across 3 files.

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge; no new actionable issues were found.

Summary

This PR rejects repeated relationship properties and property values that appear to name several flags.

• Relationship properties reject ambiguous values and keep selectors intact.

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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
markdown	▁▂▁▁▁█▇▇▇▇▆▇▇▇▇▆▇▆█	266,834,509 → 266,960,260	+0.05%	46.60 → 46.86ms	+0.57%
startup	▆▆▆▆▆█▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▁▇	1,010,256 → 1,017,362	+0.70%	1.51 → 1.48ms	-2.32%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

_{Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run.}

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Shadow comparison

Parsing mise use -g node@20 against a shadow of mise's committed spec.
Reported, not gated: the shadow grows as the derive learns to express more, so
what to watch is the ratio rather than either column.

framework	stripped binary, bytes
usage	1249944
bpaf	2494640
clap	3100904

framework	instructions, cold parse	vs usage
usage	8295	—
clap	6313736	761x
bpaf	21909300	2641x

                                              min       p01       p10    median
usage-rs: argv -> struct                      737       738       739       741  ns
clap: build tree + parse -> struct        1229491   1231936   1239645   1254990  ns
bpaf: build parser + parse -> struct      3418914   3418914   3454150   3478474  ns

usage: argv -> struct                             754 ns      0.75 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct            1258836 ns   1258.84 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              50401 ns     50.40 µs
clap: build tree only                          746579 ns    746.58 µs

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Review comments at @lib/src/spec/helpers.rs:
- Around line 254-256: Update both conflict serializers for `arg.conflicts` and
`SpecFlag` so a single multiword selector containing a dash-leading word uses
child-node form rather than property form; preserve property serialization for
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