From a4a6607ceb047abef8b51c7307a428997f0a1d64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Ross <alros@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 16:22:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use weak shell quoting for npm tasks with -- Part of #115876

---
 extensions/npm/src/tasks.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/extensions/npm/src/tasks.ts b/extensions/npm/src/tasks.ts
index 53bd085caed..96db9e0dc39 100644
--- a/extensions/npm/src/tasks.ts
+++ b/extensions/npm/src/tasks.ts
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ export async function createTask(packageManager: string, script: NpmTaskDefiniti
 		const result: (string | ShellQuotedString)[] = new Array(cmd.length);
 		for (let i = 0; i < cmd.length; i++) {
 			if (/\s/.test(cmd[i])) {
-				result[i] = { value: `${cmd[i]}`, quoting: ShellQuoting.Strong };
+				result[i] = { value: cmd[i], quoting: cmd[i].includes('--') ? ShellQuoting.Weak : ShellQuoting.Strong };
 			} else {
 				result[i] = cmd[i];
 			}