From 08e996bb28266a5b1707f45d20809ba44117e16a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Nodet <gnodet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:27:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix search for topDirectory when using -f / --file

---
 .../main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java b/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java
index 5070deffa1..a4ad1d23fa 100644
--- a/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java
+++ b/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ public class MavenCli {
         for (String arg : cliRequest.args) {
             if (isAltFile) {
                 // this is the argument following -f/--file
-                Path path = topDirectory.resolve(arg);
+                Path path = topDirectory.resolve(stripLeadingAndTrailingQuotes(arg));
                 if (Files.isDirectory(path)) {
                     topDirectory = path;
                 } else if (Files.isRegularFile(path)) {
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ public class MavenCli {
                 break;
             } else {
                 // Check if this is the -f/--file option
-                isAltFile = arg.equals(String.valueOf(CLIManager.ALTERNATE_POM_FILE)) || arg.equals("file");
+                isAltFile = arg.equals("-f") || arg.equals("--file");
             }
         }
         topDirectory = getCanonicalPath(topDirectory);
@@ -1616,6 +1616,18 @@ public class MavenCli {
         return interpolator;
     }
 
+    private static String stripLeadingAndTrailingQuotes(String str) {
+        final int length = str.length();
+        if (length > 1
+                && str.startsWith("\"")
+                && str.endsWith("\"")
+                && str.substring(1, length - 1).indexOf('"') == -1) {
+            str = str.substring(1, length - 1);
+        }
+
+        return str;
+    }
+
     private static Path getCanonicalPath(Path path) {
         try {
             return path.toRealPath();