Unable to use command flag to overwrite repo user

[cliffano]

I was running github-release info from a repo, and I got this error:

{"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-tags"}

I checked the repo, it resulted in user git@github.com:<username> .

However, I know that repo definitely has many releases, so something must be wrong with that username. Then I figured out that if I changed the user value to be <username>, it worked fine.

Now, the problem is that github-release commands doesn't allow --user command flag to overwrite the user value from the repo itself.

I tried github-release info --user <username>, and that ended up with the same error.

But when I modified lib/cli.js line 32 to set user value to be options.user, then it worked and I could list all the releases.

So my question is, why am I unable to use command flag --user to overwrite the user value from the repo itself? Shouldn't command line args be used to overwrite some sort of environmental defaults?