Make task execution optional

[azatoth]

Actual Situation

Currently I have a template to setup AWS CDK templates and I setup a task to run bootstrap on the new environment. But as I usually only want to run bootstrap once, or when certain things has changed in the template, I've resorted in having the tasks commented out fully.

Desired Situation

I would like to instead of a --tasks flag that is required to be set in order to run copier at all, I would like instead something like this: --enable-task taskId for copy, and additional add a separate command run-task <taskId> to only run the task

Proposed solution

No response

[sisp]

Could you put this logic in your tasks, so they are always executed but their behavior is conditional as you described? To force a certain task action, you could, e.g., use custom environment variables like FORCE_ACTION=bootstrap(totally up to you how to design this) when you run a Copier command. For example:

env FORCE_ACTION=bootstrap copier copy ...

If we make tasks optional, then we reduce automation by requiring users to decide when and when not to execute tasks. WDYT?