Re: [Fab-user] How is config file merged into environment?

[Steve Steiner (listsin)]

On Jun 27, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Jordi Funollet wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I had this itch, too. I put a recipe on the wiki that takes hosts  
> files, one
> host by line. I tried to mimic the file format from 'dsh' so I can  
> share the
> configuration files.
>
> http://wiki.fabfile.org/Recipes#Load_hosts_from_a_file
>
> Usage, assuming we have a file '~/.dsh/group/prod':
>
> fab hostsfile:prod ls
>
> Please note that I'm using Fabric 0.0.9, maybe you need to change  
> something.

Jordi, thanks for that, didn't see it on the wiki.  Funny thing is the  
config handling that already exists in Fabric does almost exactly the  
same thing; I'll have to look and see what's different.

It might be worth adding a --hosts parameter for adding a file for  
just adding hosts with some special handling about not overwriting  
what's in the current list i.e. making them additive.

Jeff -- what about adding some special handling for --hosts files?   
Seems like a _very_ common use-case and would be a piece of cake to  
implement either modifying the existing handler or using Jordi's code  
if it actually does something different.

I know...push it off for 1.0 but that's not to say it couldn't remain  
an 'undocumented but incredibly useful' feature in the next release.   
I'll make the doc a .hidden file ;-).

Thanks,

S