Sbt options are treated differently

[azdrojowa123]

When I invoke in terminal
sbt -sbt-dir "/Users/a' dog" --verbose
the output shows that this option is mapped to "-Dsbt.global.base=/Users/a' dog"
But later when I will move this option from terminal to the .sbtopts file and invoke sbt --verbose the output shows that it is mapped to -Dsbt.global.base=/Users/a'

Whether this difference has some hidden purpose ? It introduces additional inconsistency

SBT: sbt1.8.2
OS: macOs 12.13.1

[azdrojowa123]

Additional - help command shows an information:

In the case of duplicated or conflicting options, the order above
shows precedence: JAVA_OPTS lowest, command line options highest.

But when I test it the highest precedence belongs to SBT_OPTS. I've noticed such a precendence (from lowest):

1. JAVA_OPTS environment variable
2. .jvmopts file (in the project directory)
3. .sbtopts file (in the project directory)
4. command line options
5. SBT_OPTS environment variable

Shouldn't SBT_OPTS come before .sbtopts file ?

[eed3si9n]

@azdrojowa123 Thanks for the report. Handing whitespace and quotes are difficult in Bash, so I am guessing that some of these are just bugs related to that.