Fix list options in configuration files. (#612)

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ Bug fixes and small improvements:
 - Use `≥` sign instead of `>=` in HTML legend. (:issue:`603`)
 - Using :option:`--add-tracefile` will now correctly merge branch coverage. (:issue:`600`)
 - Fix package-level function coverage statistics in Cobertura XML reports. (:issue:`605`)
-- Respect excluded/noncode lines for aggregated branch coverage. (:issue:`611`)
+- Respect excluded/noncode lines for aggregated branchcoverage. (:issue:`611`)
+- Fix list options in configuration file (search-path). (:issue:`612`)
 
 Documentation:
 

gcovr/configuration.py

@@ -523,19 +523,18 @@ def _assign_value_to_dict(
     option: GcovrConfigOption,
     is_single_value: bool,
 ) -> None:
-
-    if option.action in ("store", "store_const"):
-        namespace[option.name] = value
-        return
-
-    if option.action == "append":
+    if option.action == "append" or option.nargs == "*":
         append_target = namespace.setdefault(option.name, [])
         if is_single_value:
             append_target.append(value)
         else:
             append_target.extend(value)
         return
 
+    if option.action in ("store", "store_const"):
+        namespace[option.name] = value
+        return
+
     assert False, f"unexpected action for {option.name}: {option.action!r}"
 
 

gcovr/tests/config-output/config/gcovr.config

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 html-css=style.css
 output=../coverage.html
 filter=.*
+search-path=../