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Add [cd(DIR)] attribute #2082

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casey opened this issue May 25, 2024 · 5 comments
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Add [cd(DIR)] attribute #2082

casey opened this issue May 25, 2024 · 5 comments

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@casey
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casey commented May 25, 2024

Allow setting the working directory of a recipe to an arbitrary directory. Good first issue!

@pedrofgodinho
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pedrofgodinho commented Jul 6, 2024

Pointing out a usecase for this: it'd facilitate cross-platform support. The project I'm working on currently will likely be developed on both windows and linux. set windows-shell := ['powershell.exe'] is a good first step, but I couldn't find a better way to support both shells other than this hack:

_cd_and_run dir *cmd:
    just _cd_and_run-{{os()}} {{dir}} {{cmd}}

_cd_and_run-linux dir *cmd:
    cd {{dir}} && {{cmd}}

_cd_and_run-macos dir *cmd:
    cd {{dir}} && {{cmd}}

_cd_and_run-windows dir *cmd:
    cd {{dir}}; {{cmd}}

Even this is fairly imperfect, as it doesn't easily allow you to do things like adding a - for ignoring errors (e.g. for a lint recipe to lint 2 subdirectories, when the linter gives exit code 1 when issues are found), among other similar problems.

And adding things like just _cd_and_run frontend npm run build instead of just npm run build here and there isn't the prettiest solution...
An ideal solution would probably be:

[cd(/frontend)]
build:
  npm run build

@artm
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artm commented Aug 25, 2024

I started working on this together with #2291. It works in simple cases: absolute path or relative path from current directory. I wonder though, where relative paths should actually be reconed from? Is there some precedent in just already which this feature should follow? What about modules?

@casey
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casey commented Aug 25, 2024

I think that relative paths should always be used relative to whatever would have been the working directory otherwise.

@artm
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artm commented Aug 26, 2024

Ok, I think that gives me enough direction, thanks.

@NoelJacob
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NoelJacob commented Sep 21, 2024

i think set working-directory globally and [cd(subdirectory/nested)] per command base would be good idea

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