Conditional inclusions

[hookenz]

Description

There is a nice little feature that you support currently is preconditions.

e.g.

preconditions:
      - sh: "[ ! -f /.dockerenv ]"
        msg: "Run this from the host, not inside the devcontainer."

It would be cool to apply this to an include. For example, so I can how some tasks apply only to the task when running inside a devcontainer. Or alternatively outside a devcontainer.

Or apply to whatever precondition you define.

e.g.

includes:
  preconditions:
      - sh: "[ ! -f /.dockerenv ]"
        msg: "Run this from the host, not inside the devcontainer."
  lib:
    taskfile: ./Included.yml
    flatten: true

Unless you have a better alternative idea or is there something I can do to make this work regardless?

And why would I want to do this you ask?

Well in situations like these:

  dev:
    desc: Run dev containers (run from host, not inside devcontainer)
    preconditions:
      - sh: "[ ! -f /.dockerenv ]"
        msg: "Run this from the host, not inside the devcontainer.  The dev servers should already be running."
    cmds:
      - docker compose up --build

I'd like to hide the "dev" option or make it not even available or even show up in the help if the precondition is false.

[trulede]

Combine "conditional inclusions" with "optional inclusions" and see if you can find a way that works.

version: '3'
var:
  DOCKER:
    sh: "docker" # somehow like this  -  if .dockerenv then echo "docker"
includes:
  build: ./Taskfile_{{DOCKER}}.yml
  optional: true