Martin Atkins

From reading the above it seems like there's a bit of collision of terminology here, so I just want to try to clarify what this represents to make sure everyone's...

This issue is essentially blocked on a decision for https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/382 right now, since we're not intending to add any new backend implementations until we have a more specific plan for...

Thanks for that extra context, @stevehipwell. If we can convince ourselves that it's okay to add a new backend that doesn't support locking at all (which, as far as I...

I've not yet caught up on the relationship between the referrers API and the consistency guarantees we need, but I agree that it would be worth investigating what additional assumptions...

Sure thing... I only intended that as "if you already know an answer", and was not intending it as a request that you go do a bunch of original research....

Hmm... this might be a little tricky! The special rule for checks is that they must always happen after everything else has been dealt with. This is the compromise that...

Hi @magodo! Thanks for sharing this use-case. It's definitely an interesting idea to explore! I want to be up front that I don't expect we'll be able to tackle this...

Although it's a much bigger idea and so certainly _not_ the same as this request, I do want to just cross-link https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/2160 here because one of the ideas I discussed...

The use-case of choosing a different `.tfvars` file based on a selected environment seems like it also overlaps with https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/1053. However, of course if the purpose of selecting the `.tfvars`...

Hi @KyleKotowick! Thanks for reporting this. Based on the trace log I see that this is failing in the validation phase rather than in the planning phase. `terraform plan` implicitly...