Included Taskfiles have wrong working directory with USER_WORKING_DIR

[idelchi]

I am having trouble executing tasks from an included file in the current working directory while using Taskfile.yml.

My goal is to be able to navigate to any sub-folder, run a task command, which would use the Taskfile.yml at the root, which in turn includes utilities and commands from other folders.

Here's a minimal example:

Taskfile.yml:

version: '3'

includes:
  info:
    taskfile: 'subfolder/Taskfile.yml'
    # dir: '{{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}

tasks:
  default: 
    cmds:
      - echo {{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}
      - pwd

subfolder/Taskfile.info.yml:

version: '3'

tasks:
  default: 
    cmds:
      - echo {{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}
      - pwd
    # dir: '{{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}'

When I'm inside the subfolder and run task info, the output is (as expected):

/home/user/ws/subfolder
/home/user/ws

Adding dir: '{{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}' to the include statement in Taskfile.yml, has no effect, while I would have expected it to resolve to /home/user/ws/subfolder.

Adding dir: '{{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}' to the task in subfolder/Taskfile.info.yml yields:

/home/user/ws/subfolder
/home/user/ws/home/user/ws/subfolder   (?)

It seems that USER_WORKING_DIR resolves to the correct directory, but the commands are not running there. Perhaps I'm using the functionality incorrectly?

A use-case is where I'm using the "--global" flag and have the aforementioned structure in my $HOME folder.
I can only get tasks in the 'root' Taskfile to execute in the current working context, but not the included ones.

• Task version: v3.26.0
• Operating system: Linux / Debian Bookworm
• Experiments enabled: No

[idelchi]

The combination

Taskfile.yml

includes:
  info:
    taskfile: 'subfolder/Taskfile.yml'
    dir: '{{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}'

subfolder/Taskfile.yml

tasks:
  default:
    cmds:
      - echo {{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}
      - pwd

Will still run the cmds in the top-level Taskfile.yml folder, and not in the current working directory.

user@host:/var$ task -g info
task: [info:default] echo /var
/var
task: [info:default] pwd
/home/user

I'm no longer sure if this is the intended behavior though! I can work around this by assigning dir: $PWD

Although I guess the issue is that USER_WORKING_DIR variable is not available in the include statement.

[lucasfcnunes]

@idelchi I too want to do something similar.

# <top_level_folder>/Taskfile.yaml
version: '3'
...
includes:
  current:
    # internal: true
    dir: '{{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}'
    taskfile: '{{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}/_Taskfile.yaml'
    # optional: true
...

# <top_level_folder>/<...>/_Taskfile.yaml
version: '3'
...
tasks:
  pwd: pwd
...