6 Commits (6440c839474f052d8997bb5cec19c2743e5108e6)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Martin Atkins	efe78b2910	main: new global option -chdir ... This new option is intended to address the previous inconsistencies where some older subcommands supported partially changing the target directory (where Terraform would use the new directory inconsistently) where newer commands did not support that override at all. Instead, now Terraform will accept a -chdir command at the start of the command line (before the subcommand) and will interpret it as a request to direct all actions that would normally be taken in the current working directory into the target directory instead. This is similar to options offered by some other similar tools, such as the -C option in "make". The new option is only accepted at the start of the command line (before the subcommand) as a way to reflect that it is a global command (not specific to a particular subcommand) and that it takes effect _before_ executing the subcommand. This also means it'll be forced to appear before any other command-specific arguments that take file paths, which hopefully communicates that those other arguments are interpreted relative to the overridden path. As a measure of pragmatism for existing uses, the path.cwd object in the Terraform language will continue to return the _original_ working directory (ignoring -chdir), in case that is important in some exceptional workflows. The path.root object gives the root module directory, which will always match the overriden working directory unless the user simultaneously uses one of the legacy directory override arguments, which is not a pattern we intend to support in the long run. As a first step down the deprecation path, this commit adjusts the documentation to de-emphasize the inconsistent old command line arguments, including specific guidance on what to use instead for the main three workflow commands, but all of those options remain supported in the same way as they were before. In a later commit we'll make those arguments produce a visible deprecation warning in Terraform's output, and then in an even later commit we'll remove them entirely so that -chdir is the single supported way to run Terraform from a directory other than the one containing the root module configuration.	6 years ago
Martin Atkins	c06675c616	command: New -compact-warnings option ... When warnings appear in isolation (not accompanied by an error) it's reasonable to want to defer resolving them for a while because they are not actually blocking immediate work. However, our warning messages tend to be long by default in order to include all of the necessary context to understand the implications of the warning, and that can make them overwhelming when combined with other output. As a compromise, this adds a new CLI option -compact-warnings which is supported for all the main operation commands and which uses a more compact format to print out warnings as long as they aren't also accompanied by errors. The default remains unchanged except that the threshold for consolidating warning messages is reduced to one so that we'll now only show one of each distinct warning summary. Full warning messages are always shown if there's at least one error included in the diagnostic set too, because in that case the warning message could contain additional context to help understand the error.	6 years ago
Brian Flad	20a814028d	command: Consistency implement and document parallelism default of 10 ... References: * f4da82a023/command/command.go (L41) * b9d8e96e0c/terraform/context.go (L149-L155)	7 years ago
Robert Liebowitz	8d98fdecac	Autoload only .auto.tfvars files	9 years ago
Robert Liebowitz	006744bfe0	Use all tfvars files in working directory ... As a side effect, several commands that previously did not have a failure state can now fail during meta-parameter processing.	9 years ago
Martin Atkins	7ed70bb00e	website: new filesystem layout for core/provider split ... This repo now contains only the core docs, with other content moving elsewhere.	9 years ago