-r flag not rerunning interpolation task
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Description
The -r flag is supposed to rerun the provided tasks without caching. That is, chomp build -r will rerun the build task even if the build is cached and would be skipped. -r is different to -f in that it will only rerun the top-level task, while still caching dependencies. Useful for debugging specific tasks without invalidating their dependencies.
Currently chomp build -r is not rerunning interpolation tasks though for an interpolation task like:
[[task]]
name = 'build'
dep = 'src/#'
target = 'lib/#'
run = '''
echo "running build"
cp $DEP $TARGET
'''
Where chomp build -r in the above will continue to use the cached run.
The reason for this is that interpolations form a list of tasks, and the main task itself is treated as a pointer task which depends on the interpolation dependencies internally. The -r logic would need to detect this specific interpolation structure to properly rerun interpolation tasks.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing chomp build -r with the interpolation task shown in the issue, then trace the -r handling and interpolation task logic. Done means the top-level interpolated task reruns while its dependencies remain cached, unlike -f.
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- rust
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Bug
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