passing incorrect command-line flags doesn't return an error

[p0lyn0mial]

I suspect the issue is not tied up to a single command but I run into it when I tried to create a new release from an existing image.

1. running the following command (notice incorrect —from-release flag)

   oc  adm release new —from-release=registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/origin/release:4.2 cluster-kube-apiserver-operator=quay.io/polynomial/origin-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator:latest --to-image=quay.io/polynomial/origin-release:latest
   

   gives me the following output

   info: Loading override quay.io/polynomial/origin-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator:latest 
   cluster-kube-apiserver-operator
   info: Included 1 images from 1 input operators into the release
   error: unable to create a release: operator "cluster-kube-apiserver-operator" contained an 
   invalid image-references file: no input image tag named "hypershift"
   

2. running (notice incorrect -from-release flag)

   oc adm release new -from-release=registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/origin/release:4.2 cluster-kube-apiserver-operator=quay.io/polynomial/origin-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator:latest --to-image=quay.io/polynomial/origin-release:latest
   

   is better but not perfect

   error: open rom-release=registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/origin/release:4.2: no such file or 
   directory
   

3. however the following command

    oc adm release new --key=val --from-release=registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/origin/release:4.2 cluster-kube-apiserver-operator=quay.io/polynomial/origin-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator:latest --to-image=quay.io/polynomial/origin-release:latest
   

   reports an unknow flag

   Error: unknown flag: --key
   
   
   Usage:
     oc adm release new [SRC=DST ...] [flags]
   
   Examples:
    # Create a release from the latest origin images and push to a DockerHub repo
     oc adm release new --from-image-stream=4.1 -n origin --to-image 
   docker.io/mycompany/myrepo:latest
   ....
   

I would expect that cases 1 and 2 would behave the same way as 3.

[p0lyn0mial]

/cc @sttts

[p0lyn0mial]

closing as i opened a BZ issue.