override dist taskfile

[lrob]

If not already possible, and I missed it, it would be very useful to be able to override only certain fields of a taskfile.dist.yml with a local taskfile.yml. Just like in docker compose with docker-compose.override.yml. Here is the documentation for it.

This would have several advantages: the most important, I think, are:

1. The taskfile.yml would usually be very short, because the fields to be overridden are usually only a few.
2. if any part of the dist file is modified, this is automatically inherited by the local taskfile.yml.

[trulede]

@lrob You could use the existing include mechanism to achieve the same effect.

The specification of the included taskfile name uses a template mechanism, so it would even be possible to select which file to include at runtime. For example:

version: '3'

includes:
  lib:
    taskfile: ./Taskfile.{{REL}}.yml    //resolves to a taskfile containing task 'do_stuff'
    flatten: true                              // no namespace, just call task'do_stuff' directly

Then run task: REL=debug task do_stuff ... or similar. There is a lot of possibility from there.

https://taskfile.dev/usage/#flatten-includes