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Support for excluding entire namespaces in addition to individual tasks #2300
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@dgroh it could be an idea to support regular expressions in the
excludeslist. Something like this:func MatchTextAuto(input, pattern string) bool { // Characters that indicate a likely regex pattern regexMetaChars := `*+?^$()[]{}|` // If the pattern contains any meta-characters, treat it as regex if strings.ContainsAny(pattern, regexMetaChars) { re, err := regexp.Compile(pattern) if err == nil { return re.MatchString(input) } } // Fallback to string matching. return strings.Contains(input, pattern) }Reacted by Daniel Groh@dgroh it could be an idea to support regular expressions in the
excludeslist. Something like this:func MatchTextAuto(input, pattern string) bool { // Characters that indicate a likely regex pattern regexMetaChars := `*+?^$()[]{}|` // If the pattern contains any meta-characters, treat it as regex if strings.ContainsAny(pattern, regexMetaChars) { re, err := regexp.Compile(pattern) if err == nil { return re.MatchString(input) } } // Fallback to string matching. return strings.Contains(input, pattern) }I found it support wildcard task names like
deploy:*. If there are tasks likedeploy:*anddeploy:1in a included task file, andexcludesoption like thisdeploy:*. What's the result it should be, excludes all task matched with regexdeploy:*or only excludes taskdeploy:*.
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Problem Statement
Currently, the excludes feature in Task only allows excluding individual tasks by their full names (e.g., "flight-recorder:start", "flight-recorder:dump"). This becomes cumbersome when you want to exclude all tasks within a specific namespace.
Current Behavior
Desired Behavior
Allow excluding entire namespaces to simplify the configuration:
Use Case
When including a large taskfile with multiple namespaces, it's common to want to exclude entire groups of related tasks rather than listing each one individually.
This is especially useful for:
Proposed Implementation
The excludes array could support both:
Related
This builds upon the existing excludes feature introduced in #1859.