[FEATURE]: Configurable folder to search for custom commands

[isaacpz]

Feature Request

All custom commands currently must be stored in the project root. For projects with many custom commands, this makes the root folder explode with lots of files.

I understand there is a performance concern with searching all subfolders, but it'd be great if I could configure a single folder that should be used to store custom commands in.

Ideally, subfolders of the configured folder would also be searched (with a much less demanding performance impact because the search path will be so restricted)

Background / Motivation

I am trying to set up a Garden project that heavily uses the custom command functionality.

What should the user be able to do?

In the project garden.yml, the user should be able to include something like: customCommandPath: commands, which is added to the search path when looking for custom commands.

For example, this folder structure should work:

project.garden.yml (includes customCommandPath: commands)
commands/
   command1.garden.yml
   command2.garden.yml
   command3.garden.yml
   module1/
      command4.garden.yml
command5.garden.yml

Why do they want to do this? What problem does it solve?

I do not want lots of custom command configurations in the root of my project.

Suggested Implementation(s)

See above

How important is this feature for you/your team?

🌹 It’s a nice to have, but nice things are nice 🙂

[thsig]

Hi @isaacpz—thanks for writing this up!

@edvald, am I right in assuming that this could be done without significant performance impact?

[edvald]

Correct, this should have no performance impact since the project config is loaded before the commands are loaded.

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