Martin Atkins

I suggested in an earlier comment that once Terraform v1.8 is released with support for provider-defined functions it would be possible for someone to write a provider that contains a...

`.tfvars` files are not considered to be "part of the configuration" strictly speaking (they come from the command line), but I can see that in certain cases they behave as...

Interesting idea, @Puneeth-n! Thanks for suggesting it. I think a question we'd need to figure out here is what _does_ happen to the old instance. Should Terraform just "forget" it...

Okay... so this implies an entirely new instance state "decommissioned", in addition to "tainted" and "deposed", which behaves a bit like deposed but only gets deleted when specifically requested. Ideally...

The Terraform Core team is not currently doing any work in the area of this issue due to being focused elsewhere. In the mean I think some of the use-cases...

The intended design for `removed` blocks was that in the long run they allow any of the lifecycle options that would normally be allowed for the kind of object that...

Hi @crazy-max, As I think you've seen in digging in to this, the idea of "merging" bodies is not really a well-defined problem. There are many possible interpretations of what...

Hi @FLAGLORD, I'm not sure I follow what you are referring to, since the summary of the issue talks about `gohcl` but the code you've linked to is in `hclwrite`....

Hi @udf2457, Since HCL has multiple levels of abstraction at which you can decode this is not a straightforward answer in the general case, but since you are clearly using...

Thanks for sharing this, @dbanck. The comment in the last source snippet you shared matched what was my initial instinct while thinking about this: I expect it's the way it...