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feat: add --failfast and failfast: true to control dependencies - #2525
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As we're merging all our Taskfiles into a single one, we've run into unexpected behavior with the following setup:
Main Taskfile:
version: '3'
failfast: true
includes:
other: Taskfile2.yaml
tasks:
default:
deps:
- dep1
- dep2
- dep3
- dep4
dep1: sleep 1 && echo 'dep1'
dep2: sleep 2 && echo 'dep2'
dep3: sleep 3 && echo 'dep3'
dep4: exit 1
Included Taskfile:
version: '3'
failfast: false
tasks:
default:
deps:
- dep1
- dep2
- dep3
- dep4
dep1: sleep 1 && echo 'dep1'
dep2: sleep 2 && echo 'dep2'
dep3: sleep 3 && echo 'dep3'
dep4: exit 1
When running task, I expect failfast to be enabled, but when running task other:default, I expect failfast to be disabled. Currently, this doesn’t happen:
In my opinion, there are a few possible ways to address this:
- Enforce failfast only through
.taskrcfor the global one, but keep the failfast for a local task - Disallow failfast within included Taskfiles (similar to how dotenv works).
- Document the current behavior more clearly.
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Could you update the completion scripts to include this new flag?
Bash already supports it (because it parses the help), but Zsh and Fish don’t yet.
Otherwise it looks good ! Pretty exciting 🔥
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This PR introduces a small behavior change on how dependencies work. Task will now wait for all dependencies to finish running by default, even when any of them fail.
To opt for the previous behavior, either:
failfast: trueto your.taskrc.yml.failfast: trueto a specific task.--failfastflag.--failfastflag will also be considering when using--parallel.