Enable forked click-repl to test change

Test change to be submitted to click_repl to enable use of general
options in the repl.

docs/changes.rst

@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ Released: not yet
   from  pywbemtools/pywbemcli/_utils.py to pywbemcli/_connection_file_names.py.
   (issue # 1423)
 
+* Use click-repl version 3 forked. Currently this is using a forked version since the
+  proposed changes to fix issues (see issue #1441) have not been incorporated
+  into a released version of click-repl.
+
 **Known issues:**
 
 * See `list of open issues`_.

minimum-constraints-install.txt

@@ -29,7 +29,16 @@ nocasedict==1.0.1
 Click==8.0.2
 click-spinner==0.1.8; python_version <= '3.11'
 click-spinner==0.1.10; python_version >= '3.12'
-click-repl==0.2
+
+# TODO: The version specified in requirements.txt is a fork of
+# click=repl. When that fork is integrated and a new version of click-repl
+# is released that should be the new minimum because that fork changes the
+# repl function interface by adding a new parameter that pywbemcli uses.
+# Version 0.3.0 does not work for us because of issue #1441 so in requirements
+# we are currently using a forked version of the click-repl master.
+# Probably: click-repl==0.3.1
+click-repl @ git+https://github.com/pywbem/click-repl.git@allow-general-options
+
 asciitree==0.3.3
 tabulate==0.8.2; python_version <= '3.9'
 tabulate==0.8.8; python_version >= '3.10'

pywbemtools/pywbemcli/pywbemcli.py

@@ -1115,4 +1115,7 @@ def repl(ctx):
     if USE_AUTOSUGGEST:
         prompt_kwargs['auto_suggest'] = AutoSuggestFromHistory()
 
-    click_repl.repl(ctx, prompt_kwargs=prompt_kwargs)
+    # set option allow_general_options=True to enable use of general options
+    # in pywbemcli
+    click_repl.repl(ctx, prompt_kwargs=prompt_kwargs,
+                    allow_general_options=True)

requirements.txt

@@ -25,9 +25,16 @@ nocasedict>=1.0.1
 Click>=8.0.2
 click-spinner>=0.1.8; python_version <= '3.11'
 click-spinner>=0.1.10; python_version >= '3.12'
+
 # click-repl 0.2 is needed for compatibility with Click 8.0.
-# click-repl version 3.0 causes test failures. See issue #1312
-click-repl>=0.2,<0.3.0
+# click-repl version 3.0 causes test failures. See issues #1312 and #1441
+# Fix for click repl in forked repo issue #1441. Use our fork of click-repl
+# below which fixes the issue defined in issue #1441
+click-repl @ git+https://github.com/pywbem/click-repl.git@allow-general-options
+# TODO: Update click-repl version when our changes accepted probably
+#       to click-repl>=0.3.1. When this changes, minimum-constraints-install.txt
+#       must also be updated
+
 asciitree>=0.3.3
 # tabulate 0.8.8 fixes ImportError on Python 3.10.
 tabulate>=0.8.2; python_version <= '3.9'