`tsc --init --help` generates foreign `compilerOptions: { help: true }`

[amitdahan]

Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

• init
• --init
• --help

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about init.

⏯ Playground Link

(Issue is with tsc --init so I'm no sure playground / bench is relevant here)

💻 Code

# the following generates `help: true` in `compilerOptions`
tsc --init --help

# while this works fine:
tsc --init --watch

🙁 Actual behavior

tsconfig.json is generated with { compilerOptions: { help: true } }.

🙂 Expected behavior

--help is ignored, exactly like --watch or -w.

[fatcerberus]

Does a tsconfig containing "help": true cause tsc to print the help text?

[amitdahan]

Nope, it's silently ignored (unlike watch: true)