✨ Dagger Install Module within Git Root / Monorepository

[rawkode]

What are you trying to do?

I would like to make it easier to install a module from the root of a Git repository, especially useful for mono repositories.

Options

Override "root"

While this may seem confusing, it's a pretty nice syntax and Dagger already blocks its usage outside of a Git repository; why not allow this and provide a warning when used that it's scoped to the Git repository instead of blocking it?

dagger install /dagger/MODULE

git+file

Uses the existing git+PROTOCOL selector, and git+file:// is pretty common across GitHub:

https://github.com/search?q=%22git%2Bfile%22&type=code

dagger install git+file://dagger/MODULE

Both

Support both 👍🏻

Why is this important to you?

Within a mono repository, it's nice to have an internal Daggerverse. Providing a monorepo internal syntax, or even for any Git repository would make consuming local modules a lot easier.

How are you currently working around this?

At the moment, I've got a lot of ../../../../dagger/MODULE within my deeply nested dagger.json files across my monorepository.

[rawkode]

I realised that when I use Bazel, I use labels.

I guess what I'm looking for is something akin to that for Dagger, where we can use the dagger.json name, or some other identifier, to reference other local modules.