Inherit all/some tasks from included file

[fgblomqvist]

In my shared Taskfiles, I have two types of tasks:

• Ones that are primarily "utility" tasks that are meant to be used by other tasks
• Ones that are primarily first-degree tasks that are meant to be used by users

Right now I can include a Taskfile by doing something like (the extended format):

includes:
  shared:
    taskfile: ../../Taskfile.yml

However, in order for the user to be able to use the first-degree shared tasks I still have to redeclare them:

tasks:
  install: 
    - task: shared:install

This is tedious and can result in a lot of boilerplate.
Therefore, I think it would be handy to be able to directly inherit some/all of the tasks from an included file.

It could look like this:

includes:
  shared:
    taskfile: ../../Taskfile.yml
    inherit: true

or if you only want to inherit some of the tasks:

includes:
  shared:
    taskfile: ../../Taskfile.yml
    inherit: [install, test]

And then a user would be able to just call task install which would execute a task that would be equivalent to:

install:
  - task:
    - shared:install

However, inside the taskfile, you'd still have to use the namespace:

foo:
  - do things
  - task: shared:install
  - do more things

Any thoughts?

[tylermmorton]

Hi @fgblomqvist, thank you for the feature request. I could see it being useful to select which tasks are included from files. It could prevent polluting the task list if you have a utility Taskfile that you include in many of your other Taskfiles.

includes:
  util:
    taskfile: "../util/Taskfile.yml"
    include: [clean, install]

tasks:
  setup:
    - task: util:clean
    - task: util:install

Are you also suggesting the ability to inline certain tasks to remove the parent namespace? This has been suggested before in #273

includes:
  util:
    taskfile: "../util/Taskfile.yml"
    include: [clean, install]
    inline: true

tasks:
  setup:
    - task: clean
    - task: install

[fgblomqvist]

Ah yes my bad, I did not find that one when I looked before posting this. That is indeed pretty much what I was looking for 🙂 . But yeah having the ability to only import certain tasks could also be useful in combination.

[andreynering]

Since this is a duplicate of #273 I'm closing this one.